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A Donald Trump-endorsed Republican congressional candidate in Iowa was filmed in college talking about his manhood, challenging his black friends into a measuring contest and making a series of confounding outbursts about black women.
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Iowa Republican Joe Mitchell, 29, is running in Iowa's highly competitive 2nd District with the backing of the president and Turning Point Action.
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But when he was a student at Drake University, he was caught on camera crying about his 'd***' size and talking about 'black women,' before adding that he wants to 'f*** J*****e,' a black woman he had a crush on at the time.
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'I want to marry one,' Mitchell then said of black women in the video obtained by the Daily Mail.
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The video was provided to the Daily Mail by a woman who was friends with Mitchell in college but was not in the room at the time of the recording.
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She dated the incident as taking place in 2017, when Mitchell was 19 years old.
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Mitchell responded in the video to one question, saying, 'I want my kids to not be white, ok?' because 'I don't like 'f***ing white people, ok?' before adding, 'why do you think I hang out with people that aren't white?'
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Mitchell is also seen challenging his inquisitors to compete in a competition about their manhood.
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'Let's f***ing measure them.
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Prove it to me right now,' he says.
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This 2019 photo shows Iowa Republican congressional candidate Joe Mitchell, left, and former conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in 2025
Mitchell in 2017, at 19 years old, was filmed stating he wanted to 'f***' a black girl he had a crush on, and also making negative remarks about white women, according to a video obtained by the Daily Mail
'You guys are the racist ones,' he implores, standing in front of a wall placard featuring then-Democrat and now Independent Senator Bernie Sanders.
An attorney for the Mitchell campaign did not dispute the authenticity of the video, rather accusing 'political foes' of trying to 'damage his campaign.'
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Two Snapchat screenshots shared with the Daily Mail appear to show Mitchell discussing his own 'alcohol violations' while he was a college student.
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In a post sent by Mitchell, screenshotted by a source, the future GOP candidate shared a selfie boasting about racking up '2 alcohol violations in a week.'
In another screenshotted post, he wrote that he was 'taking lots of xanx tonight,' adding 'and no one will stop me.'
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The Daily Mail shared the video and Snapchat screenshots with the Mitchell campaign.
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Mitchell said in a response statement to the Daily Mail regarding the video and Snapchat screenshots that he's 'grown up' since they were taken.
'My entire generation has had a camera in their face since we were born.
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I was 19, in college, and I have grown up,' said Mitchell.
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'Since graduating college, I found some better friends, launched my own small business, launched a nonprofit, and built countless affordable homes all over Northeast Iowa.
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I achieved the American Dream, and I'm running for Congress so every American can reach their full potential.
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A college-aged Mitchell is seen boasting about alcohol violations in the screenshot of a Snapchat obtained by the Daily Mail
Another screenshot of a Snapchat obtained by the Daily Mail shows a college-aged Mitchell
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An Iowa Democratic operative, who was friends with Mitchell in college, told the Daily Mail that the candidate hasn't 'drunk or dated in a while because he has been so focused on the campaign.'
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The woman who provided the Daily Mail with the videos, a school friend who has not spoken to Mitchell since college, said she expected him to blame the alcohol.
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'We are all drunk and young once, but that doesn't make us any less accountable for our words,' she said.
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She told the Daily Mail she came forward because voters deserve 'the full picture' of who they are electing.
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Polling in the district, typically considered slightly favorable to Republicans, has shown a neck-and-neck race between Mitchell and his Democratic opponent, Lindsay James.
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The House Majority PAC, aligned with congressional Democrats, noted in August that in an initial head-to-head matchup, James led Mitchell 46 percent to 45 percent.
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A second source, a male who also knew Mitchell at the time the video was taken, believes the statements were indicative of his views then.
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Mitchell is running in a tight contest against his Democratic opponent Lindsay James
The male source also revealed that Mitchell, on numerous occasions, claimed that he 'did not want white children, he frequently lamented that' and asked other people who were in the room when the 2017 videos were taken to 'hook him up with black women.
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he was basically known for being a ridiculous person,' said the source who hasn't spoken to Mitchell since college.
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An attorney for his campaign rejected 'false accusations' that he was known for being 'ridiculous.'
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Mitchell's campaign provided the Daily Mail an image of him with Trump in 2015.
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Joe has always been a strong Trump supporter, and those facts became too uncomfortable with Democrats in his social group when he got elected,' Andrew Turner, a former Iowa Democratic operative, told the Daily Mail.
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'Now they want to see him fail and are pushing this garbage because it would hurt them too much to confront the fact they were always friends with a Trump supporter who never changed in how he treated them as a friend.
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They all loved him,' Turner added.
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A second woman, who said a couple of her friends dated Mitchell in college, also said the behavior portrayed in the video is 'consistent with his behavior' at the time, though she admitted she no longer knew him.
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Mitchell's campaign provided the Daily Mail an image of him with Trump in 2015
Eric Branstad, a longtime Republican political operative in Iowa and son of the Hawkeye State's former governor, Terry Branstad, came to Mitchell's defense.
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'These people sending this kind of stuff are jealous of success, and of how hard he works,' Branstad told the Daily Mail.
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'Joe is as clean as they come, as far as any drugs or alcohol or partying.
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We were all in college once, and I'm sure we had some good and bad nights,' Branstad added.
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Mitchell became the youngest-ever state lawmaker when he was elected in 2018 at the age of 20 while still at Drake University.
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