GOP Senate candidate calls for state investigation of Ellison allegations

The Hill reports:

The Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota is calling for an "immediate" state investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), claiming the Minnesota attorney general's office is best equipped to conduct an "impartial" investigation.

"Recent calls for a congressional ethics investigation, made by Keith Ellison and echoed by my opponent, amount to nothing more than political cover," Karin Housley said in a statement. "Ellison will have left Congress by the time an investigation could be completed."

Housley added that the allegations "raise significant doubts about Keith Ellison’s fitness to serve as Minnesota’s chief legal officer." Ellison is running for Minnesota attorney general.

Multiple Republicans in recent weeks have evoked the allegations against Ellison to claim there is a double standard in how Democrats handle misconduct claims. The calls to investigate Ellison come as Democrats rallied around Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in 1982.

Comrade Ellison continues to make news.