Dem Senate nominee wears noose in new ad blasting Republican senator

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June 1, 2022 2:08pm EDT
Democrat Charles Booker wears a noose in a new ad blasting GOP Sen. Rand Paul
Democrat Charles Booker is challenging Republican Sen. Rand Paul in Kentucky's 2022 Senate race

By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News

In a provocative and controversial push, the Democratic Senate nominee who’s challenging Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky in November’s midterm election wears a noose in a new ad criticizing Paul’s past opposition to a measure to make lynching a federal hate crime.

But the spot, by former state lawmaker Charles Booker, makes no mention that Paul later supported an updated anti-lynching bill that is now law.

"The pain of our past persists to this day. In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom," Booker, who is Black, says in the ad released Wednesday.

https://twitter.com/Booker4KY/status/1531958148352905219

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[Kamaji]

That's disgusting.

[mountaineer]

It's those darn Nigerian bodybuilders who went after poor Jussie Smollett, isn't it?

[Free Vulcan]

Charles Booker
@Booker4KY
Lynching is a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom. In Kentucky, it was used to kill three of my uncles.

In this historic election, the choice is clear. Rand Paul may want to divide us, but hate won’t win this time.

It’s time to move forward, together.

He's only 38 years old. Were these the brothers of his great great grandparents? Did he even know them?

Why do they have to keep long reaching back to the Jim Crow and slave days just to stay relevant? Hmmmm?

[GtHawk]

Poetic justice would be this idiots reprehensible ad, and blatantly inferring that Paul is a racist, lynching his election bid.