NEW: Shocking Video Reveals Disturbing Remarks by IA-02 GOP Candidate Joe Mitchell

Washington, D.C. – New reporting from the Daily Mail reveals a disturbing video of Joe Mitchell, the Republican running in Iowa’s Second Congressional District, making a series of offensive remarks about race, including expressing a desire to have nonwhite children and discussing the size of his own genitalia.

In the video, Mitchell—who is a white man—makes a series of bizarre and deeply offensive comments, including:

• “I want to marry one,” referring to Black women.

• “I want my kids to not be white, ok?”

• “I don’t like ‘f***ing white people, ok?” before adding, “Why do you think I hang out with people that aren’t white?”

• Mitchell is also seen challenging others to a competition to measure their genitalia.

The Daily Mail also reports that Mitchell’s campaign did not dispute the authenticity of the video.

Read more below:

Daily Mail:  Damning video reveals vulgar rant of MAGA star Joe Mitchell, then-19, about ‘black women’ and not liking ‘f***ing white people’ while boasting about his own manhood
By Victoria Churchill 
October 23, 2026

• A Donald Trump-endorsed Republican congressional candidate in lowa 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.
  
• Iowa Republican Joe Mitchell, 29, is running in lowa’s highly competitive 2nd District with the backing of the president and Turning Point Action.
  
• 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.
  
• ‘I want to marry one,’ Mitchell then said of black women in the video obtained by the Daily Mail.
  
• 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. She dated the incident as taking place in 2017, when Mitchell was 19 years old. They have not been in touch since college.
  
• 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?’
  
• Mitchell is also seen challenging his inquisitors to compete in a competition about their manhood.
  
• ‘Let’s f***ing measure them. Prove it to me. Prove it to me right now,’ he says. ‘Forfeit! Forfeit! Forfeit!’

• ‘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.’
  
• Two Snapchat screenshots shared with the Daily Mail appear to show Mitchell discussing his own ‘alcohol violations’ while he was a college student. 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.’
  
• The Daily Mail shared the video and Snapchat screenshots with the Mitchell campaign. 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.
  
• 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. ‘We are all drunk and young once, but that doesn’t make us any less accountable for our words,’ she said.
  
• She told the Daily Mail she came forward because voters deserve ‘the full picture’ of who they are electing.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.

• 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.’
  
• Mitchell was ‘insane, he was a clown… he was basically known for being a ridiculous person,’ said the source who hasn’t spoken to Mitchell since college.
  
• 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.

• Outside of politics, Mitchell also runs a real estate development firm.
  
• The Cook Political Report categorizes it as a ‘toss-up’ race. Mitchell’s district, rated to have a R+4 partisan voter index, would typically not draw much national interest.
  
• However, in a cycle such as this year, the president’s policies are alienating voters even in critical swing states like lowa that have voted for Trump three times.
  
• Democrats see a fighting chance in the key Heartland state, where the cost of living has risen due to the war in Iran and rising diesel prices are hitting this fall, as early voting coincides with harvest season.

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