LEAK: Tone-Deaf Republican Campaign Ad Downplays Mass Shootings

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was forced to pull a radio campaign ad before it aired due to the Fourth of July weekend’s string of gun violence as it downplayed the severity of mass shootings as a whole. As if this wasn’t bad enough, Johnson pandered to QAnon voters, hinting that the Democrats and Joe Biden are profiting from human trafficking by blaming them for the recent migrant mass casualty event in Texas. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

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https://theintercept.com/2022/07/07/mass-shooting-guns-ron-johnson-campaign/

“The latest mass murder in America didn’t involve guns,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a recorded campaign radio ad slated to appear on July 6. But when the Highland Park, Illinois, shooting took place on July 4, killing seven and injuring 46 others, the campaign scrambled to keep the ad from hitting the airwaves, according to emails obtained by The Intercept.

The campaign ad, approved by Johnson and paid for by his Senate campaign committee as he seeks reelection, laid blame for the “latest mass murder” on President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. “Fifty-three people, including five children, were murdered by human traffickers because Joe Biden’s open border policy is facilitating the multibillion-dollar business model of some of the most evil people on the planet,” the ad continued, referencing an abandoned truck trailer recently discovered in San Antonio, Texas. “Human, sex, and drug trafficking are out of control because of Democrat governance.”

The day after the shooting, an executive from one of the companies contracted to produce the campaign radio ad, Katz Radio Group, frantically notified colleagues to suspend it. The following emails were provided to The Intercept by a source close to the Katz Radio Group on condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal."

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