A South Carolina Democrat is calling on a colleague—his party's nominee for U.S. Senate—to resign her seat in the state House and suspend her campaign after a series of leaked remarks emerged with her saying she needed to court gang members and disrespect white people to get votes.

In an op-ed published in South Carolina politics blog FitsNews, South Carolina Representative Justin Bamberg said that state Representative Krystle Matthews should suspend her bid against Republican Senator Tim Scott after video remarks were posted by right-wing outlet Project Veritas depicting Matthews, a Black woman, saying she needed to treat white people "like s***" in order to earn their respect in a larger conversation about how Black candidates change their mannerisms when engaging with white voters.

"Let me tell you one thing," Matthews can be heard saying on the edited video posted to the group's site Wednesday. "You ought to know who you're dealing with. You gotta treat them like sh*t. I mean, that's the only way they'll respect you. I keep them right here, like under my thumbs. Like, you have to. Otherwise they get out of control. Like kids."