Michigan Republican lawmaker doubles down on pushing ‘great replacement theory’

A Michigan Republican lawmaker has doubled down on tweets he made echoing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory, and has lost a committee seat in the state's House in doing so.

State Representative Josh Schriver insists he has been falsely branded a racist despite sharing the bigoted conspiracy theory.

“I’m a White rapper. “I guess it was only a matter of time before I was falsely labeled a ‘raaacist!’”