Candace Owens once lived “in the neighborhood.”
Candace Owens, according to Phillymag’s Fabiola Cineas, lived for a year on City Line Avenue. Owens has 1.6 million Twitter followers and 328,000 Youtube subscribers
Last May Owens was the featured speaker at a (sold out) Lincoln Day Dinner of the Lower Merion Republicans (Republican Committee of Lower Merion Narberth)
In this week’s Phillymag article about Owens, Cineas notes that “Her presence in Philly became more widely known in August 2018, when she was confronted by protesters at Green Eggs Café in Center City. Soon after she sat down for breakfast there with TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk, water was thrown; Twitter fodder was born. Owens called the event an attack on a black woman for eating breakfast. She preaches against self-victimization, but that ideology didn’t stop her from tweeting: ‘Is this the civil rights era all over again?’ “
She made “The Hitler” remarks before the Lincoln Day Dinner
Shortly before her appearance at the Lower Merion GOP event, Owens gained notoriety after she exchanged barbs in the House Chamber with Congressman Ted Lieu (D, CA). Lieu played a video clip of Owens, speaking before an audience in London, where in response to a question she said, “I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word ‘nationalism.’ I think that the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want. So when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler.” She added, “He was a national socialist. But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German. … To me, that’s not nationalism.”
Owens replies to Ted Lieu, below