Will Republicans stop pandering to White Supremacists and risk losing to Tea Party candidates?

Republicans were caught wallowing with the same people as Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof. 

57 top Republicans donated to group that inspired Dylann Roof's Manifesto of killing black people:

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Four Republican hopefuls return money after 'Dylann Roof manifesto' revelation 

Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum and 18 others to give up cash from leader of group that may have influenced Charleston church gunman

Jon Swaine and Jessica Glenza in New York

Monday 22 June 2015 19.14 EDT

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"Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof’s manifesto cited the hate group Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) as his gateway into the world of white nationalism. The CCC is the modern reincarnation of the old White Citizens Councils, which were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to battle school desegregation in the South. 

For decades, this racist group has had the ear of a number of prominent politicians, both state and federal, many of whom were members of the group and/or attended events put on the by CCC –a group that has referred to African Americans as a 'retrograde species of humanity.” 

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The Council Of Conservative Citizens: Dylann Roof’s Gateway Into The World Of White Nationalism 

By Hatewatch Staff on June 21, 2015 - 10:57 am, Posted in Hate Crime, White Nationalism

Waiting for this to blow over & going back to pandering to the racists might not work for Republican mainstream candidates this time. The press has made Republican connections to racist anti-government extremists part of the 2016 elections.

GOP candidates need choose from losing their racist base to Tea Party candidates or pandering to their racist base. 

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"The CCC is now, according to the SPLC, the nation’s largest white nationalist group and at its peak boasted 15,000 members. Though the CCC is sometimes described as “thinly veiled” white supremacists or the like, that’s misleading—it makes little secret of its agenda. (Nonetheless, Ann Coulter has previously stepped forward to defend the group from the white-supremacy attack.) In a statement of principles, the group says:

We believe that the United States derives from and is an integral part of European civilization and the European people .... We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called “affirmative action” and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

The White-Supremacist Group That Inspired a Racist Manifesto

How did the Council of Conservative Citizens become America’s biggest white-nationalist organization, and why do politicians keep dealing with it?