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RNC Accidentally Links To Porn Site Instead of Maryland GOP Twitter

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The Republican National Committee’s website linked the Maryland Republican Party’s Twitter to a porn account for months.

The Twitter link would direct users to @mdreps, which is also known as “Sexy Car Babes” — an account that has been regularly tweeting out porn links and linking to sexycarbabes.com since January 25, according to The Capital Gazette.

Maryland Republican officials say they changed their state party’s Twitter handle in January, thus putting @mdreps up for grabs, and the “Sexy Car Babes” account got a hold of it first. Unfortunately, the Maryland GOP forgot to let the RNC and GOP.com know about the name change, thus resulting in an outdated link that sent users to a porn website instead of a political Twitter page.

Maryland Republican Party executive director Patrick O’Keefe, who says he has known @mdreps has a new user for months, said a request was made to freeze the Twitter account after the name change but the freeze never took place.

The website link has since been fixed, and now links to @mdgop, which is the correct link to the Maryland Republican Party Twitter page.