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Kentucky Democrat wears noose in new ad attacking Rand Paul

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Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker appears on camera with a noose around his neck to condemn Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for blocking anti-lynching legislation. The new online ad comes with a warning about its content. Paul co-sponsored a new version of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act that cleared Congress this year and was signed into law by President Joe Biden.

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Kentucky Democrat wears noose in new ad attacking Rand Paul

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker appears on camera with a noose around his neck to condemn Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for blocking anti-lynching legislation two years ago — a personally searing ad for a trailblazing Black candidate who says some of his own ancestors were lynched.

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CBS News

Black Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky wears noose in campaign video

Charles Booker is running a long-shot campaign to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Rand Paul in November.

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The Gateway Pundit

Black Kentucky Senate Candidate Wears Noose In Campaign Ad Focused On Racism

Kentucky’s latest Democratic Senate candidate to challenge Senator Rand Paul, Charles Booker, released a campaign video Wednesday which features him wearing a noose. The video was an apparent attempt to highlight Senator Paul’s opposition to a 2020 bill that would have made lynching a federal hate crime. It appears that Booker wants to utilize racially charged imagery to illicit a response during the 2022 midterms. The video starts with a graphi…

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