Republican Trump ally loses election after vulgar video surfaces

 Screenshot of a video of Brian McDowell (Screen capture from YouTube video)

Screenshot of a video of Brian McDowell (Screen capture from YouTube video)

1st-district-mapA former contestant on “The Apprentice” and Donald Trump campaign backer who got booted from the Republican Party ticket after video surfaced of him using a vulgarity toward a woman has lost a New Jersey election.

Brian McDowell failed to win a spot on the two-person GOP slate in the southern New Jersey district on Tuesday.

James Sauro and Robert Campbell won the two spots in the 1st Assembly District to square off against a pair of Democratic incumbents in November.

The video is nine seconds long. McDowell can be seen using a vulgarity to tell a woman she should have sex with him.

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McDowell said he didn’t intend to be degrading.

McDowell appeared on “The Apprentice” in 2005 before getting fired. He coordinated Trump’s presidential campaign in part of southern New Jersey.

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