In baseball, a .175 average would be considered pathetic for a Major League hitter, but that figure is even worse for political candidates, as controversial former San Francisco Giants slugger Aubrey Huff learned Tuesday. The 45-year-old conservative suffered a landslide defeat in a school board election with just 17.5 percent of the vote, well below baseball's notorious 'Mendoza' line, which takes its name from soft-hitting former Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Mario Mendoza. Huff's campaign was likely hindered by his , stemming from his frequently ill-informed tweets about COVID-19, including the claim that masks and vaccines exacerbated the pandemic. He also made violent threats in the event that liberal Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders became president, and once joked about abducting Iranian women and assaulting them.
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