Wild leaked racial rant rocks Trump pick in toss-up House race

An attorney for Joe Mitchell, a House candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, did not dispute the authenticity of a raunchy leaked video of his profane racial remarks, instead accusing “political foes” of trying to “damage his campaign.”The video surfaced Friday in a Daily Mail report. The woman who provided it said it was recorded in 2017, when Mitchell, now 29, was a 19-year-old student at Drake University. Mitchell is running as a Republican in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, backed by Trump and Turning Point Action. The woman was friends with Mitchell in college but was not in the room when the video was recorded, the outlet reported. She told the Daily Mail she came forward because voters deserve “the full picture” of who they are electing.The Cook Political Report rates Mitchell’s race against Democrat Lindsay James a toss-up. House Majority PAC, a group aligned with congressional Democrats, said in...