Who is Patrick Little, the far-right Senate candidate kicked out of the GOP convention?

The California Republican Party, which held its convention in San Diego over the weekend, made clear that it wants nothing to do with a U.S. Senate candidate who publicly espouses anti-Semitic and white supremacist views.

“There's no room for that kind of hate speech that that man uses," Cynthia Bryant, executive director of the California Republican Party, told the Los Angeles Times, referring to the candidate, Patrick Little.

If the name is not at all familiar, it’s because Little has remained on the fringes until a new SurveyUSA poll showed him getting 18 percent of voters in the U.S. Senate race that’s led by incumbent Dianne Feinstein, D-San Francisco. The poll essentially made him the top Republican in the race.

Little considers himself a serious candidate with a real chance at replacing Feinstein in the U.S. Senate, but his views have been cast as not representative of Republican values. So, who is he, anyway, and why is the Republican Party disavowing him?

Here’s a quick synopsis of the candidate that everyone was talking about over the weekend:

What happened Saturday and why was he kicked out?

As convention events were getting under way on Saturday, Little was seen trying to register at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina where the convention was happening, the Los Angeles Times reported.

According to the Times, GOP officials did not want him there.

In an exchange with Bryant, the California GOP executive director, Little tried to convince her that he belong there because he is a Republican candidate. “But you’re not welcome here,” Bryant replied. Witnesses described him as dragging and kicking an Israeli flag.

Little protested his removal with a rant shown in a video posted on YouTube. “The Republican Party of California is nothing but Zionist stooges,” Little said as he stepped on an Israeli flag.

Who is Patrick Little and what is his background?

On his campaign website, Little describes himself as a native Maine, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and an IT engineer. In a Newsweek interview, Little was described as 33 years old.

It remains unclear where he lives or how much money his campaign has raised, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

All over his social media and in interviews, Little has expressed anti-Semitic views. He has denied the Holocaust and he told Newsweek that he sees Adolf Hitler as “the second coming of Christ.” Little has also called on for the U.S. to become “free from Jews.”

On his campaign site, his campaign slogan is “Liberate the U.S. from the Jewish Oligarchy.” Among those to endorse him is white supremacist David Duke.

What’s Patrick Little’s political platform?

On his site, Little says that as a U.S. senator he wants the government to grant federal benefits based on merit and to nationalize internet giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter.

His anti-Semitic policy goals include making it illegal for people of Jewish faith to take office in government, outlawing foreign aid to Israel and changing the U.S. Constitution to make the U.S. an explicitly an “ethnically European nation.” He also wants to make it illegal for any foundation to raise money for Holocaust education.

What do other Republican Party members say?

Little appears to have no support from the California Republican Party. After Little was kicked out of the convention over the weekend, Luis Alvarado, a GOP consultant, said Little “doesn’t represent the values of the Republican Party.”

Matt Fleming, a spokesman for the California Republican Party, also sought to separate the GOP from the candidate.

“Mr. Little has never been an active member of our party. I do not know Mr. Little and I am not familiar with his positions,” Fleming told the Los Angeles Times. “But in the strongest terms possible, we condemn anti-Semitism and any other form of religious bigotry, just as we do with racism, sexism or anything else that can be construed as a hateful point of view.”

Wait, did the Republican Party just ban a neo-Nazi?

Yes. The move by GOP officials to expel Little from the convention gained praised from some on Twitter, including one person who called it a “rare moment of ethical integrity by the part of the GOP.”