Congressional candidate Greg Raths’ website copied from Lindsey Graham’s campaign site nearly word-for-word

The marketing campaign web site for California Home GOP candidate Greg Raths, who’s operating towards Rep. Younger Kim in a main, seems to repeat practically word-for-word a number of passages from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s marketing campaign web site. 

“Decrease taxes. Much less regulation. A smaller, smarter, extra environment friendly authorities. These are the values and priorities Greg Raths will combat for in Washington as your Congressman,” the Raths web site stated as of Friday morning.

“Decrease taxes. Much less regulation. A smaller, smarter, extra environment friendly authorities. These are the values and priorities Lindsey Graham has fought for as a senator in Washington,” Graham’s web site stated in 2020. 

Raths informed Fox Information Friday that he was unaware of the difficulty till it was delivered to his consideration by a reporter.

“I work with a number of staffers who give me inputs to my webpage content material and a few of that information could have come from one other conservative candidate’s web site. Though I agree with Senator Graham on a number of points, it was by no means my intent to make use of his verbiage on my web site,” Raths stated. “This does give me the sensation that my opponents are digging deep into my marketing campaign for something to gradual my sturdy surge within the last weeks of this main marketing campaign for CA40th Congressional District.”

Raths ran for Congress in California’s forty fifth district in 2020 and misplaced a comparatively shut race towards progressive Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif. He filed paperwork to run towards the freshman Kim, R-Calif., within the state’s fortieth Congressional District late final yr. 

However Raths’ marketing campaign web site this time round seems to incorporate a number of passages that appeared in practically similar type on the web site for Graham, R-S.C., when he ran for reelection final cycle. 

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Graham’s 2020 web site is archived through the web archive Wayback Machine. Excerpts from his 2020 web site are additionally saved on the nonprofit Ballotpedia web site. 

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“Greg Raths understands that the way in which to create jobs and construct a robust financial system is to let Individuals hold extra of what they earn and get the federal government out of the way in which,” the Raths web site stated Friday. 

“Lindsey Graham understands that the way in which to create jobs and construct a robust financial system is to let Individuals hold extra of what they earn and get the federal government out of the way in which,” Graham’s web site stated in 2020.

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“So what’s one of the simplest ways to carry down well being care prices, cowl extra folks, and make medical health insurance extra reasonably priced?” Raths’ present web site says. “Redirect cash and energy over well being care choices away from Washington and return it to sufferers, native communities, and states.”

Graham’s web site in 2020: “So what’s one of the simplest ways to carry down well being care prices, cowl extra folks, and make medical health insurance extra reasonably priced? Redirect cash and energy over well being care choices away from Washington and return it to sufferers, native communities, and states.”

There are a number of different situations of the Graham web site and the Raths web site matching practically verbatim, particularly when describing the candidates’ positions on well being care. 

(Greg Raths for Congress marketing campaign)

“It is a testomony to Younger Kim’s power on this race,” Successful for Ladies Motion Fund spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas informed Fox Information Digital. “Her opponent feels the one approach to try to beat her is by plagiarizing the phrases of a sitting U.S. Senator. Younger Kim, with the $4 million she’s raised, might be simply tremendous on this main.”

Successful for Ladies endorsed Kim forward of her 2020 win and re-endorsed her this cycle. 

“Senator Graham convincingly gained the most costly Senate race in U.S. historical past, so who wouldn’t need to do most of the identical issues our marketing campaign did?” Graham marketing campaign guide Scott Farmer stated. “In spite of everything, imitation is the sincerest type of flattery.”

Raths is predicted to be a major underdog within the fortieth Congressional District main, as Kim is backed by Home GOP management. She was part of the 2020 Home GOP freshman class that considerably outperformed expectations — successful seats for the GOP when Republicans misplaced the Senate and the presidency. 

California’s fortieth Congressional District is rated “Possible Republican” by the Cook dinner Political Report. 

California’s main elections are on June 7.