'Trump and the alt-right already showed us that 'trolling' can incite violence,' wrote mattklewis of thedailybeast. 'So what the hell is up with this ad?'
"Trump and the alt-right already showed us that 'trolling' can incite violence," wrote one critic."So what the hell is up with this ad?"A Republican candidate for the United States Senate was roundly rebuked Monday after releasing a violent campaign ad showing him"hunting" so-called"Republicans in name only" and inviting supporters to purchase their own"RINO-hunting permits.
"The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice," he continues in the hushed tone of a wildlife documentarian before breaking into a home with heavily armed men in camouflage, who storm the residence while tossing a flash-bang grenade. "Join the MAGA crew, get a RINO hunting permit," says Greitens as he walks through a cloud of grenade smoke."There's no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn't expire until we save our country."
Observers from both sides of the political aisle condemned the message, which follows other violent GOP campaign ads includingin which Jim Lamon, an Arizona Republican running for U.S. Senate, shoots at President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , and Sen. Mark Kelly —whose wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords survived being shot in the head during a 2011 assassination attempt.
"Every Republican should denounce this sick and dangerous ad from Eric Greitens," Barbara Comstock, a former Republican congresswoman from Virginia,
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