Georgia Gubernatorial Ad Bashes ‘Judas’ Who Betrayed Trump |
We’re all used to negative campaign ads, but this inaugural offering from Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson is quite the doozy:
#GAGOV news:
Rick Jackson, the newest @GaRepublicans candidate for governor, just announced that he’s running — and he is putting $40 million in his campaign
His first ad goes hard after Brad Raffensperger, comparing him to Judas pic.twitter.com/ERuQNOqRcP
Yes, that’s right. The decidedly un-mom-like mom in this ad sneeringly tells her innocent-looking son that in order to lower expectations for his life, he was named “Brad” after Georgia secretary of State and Jackson gubernatorial-primary rival Brad Raffensperger, who “turned on his own kind” (Republicans? White people?) and consorted with the likes of Stacey Abrams. Mom’s backup name for him, she tells the traumatized child, was “Judas.” In case you missed the connection, the ad ends with the words “Brad ‘Judas’ Raffensperger” across the screen.
All Raffensperger did to earn this most hateful of epithets (in deeply Christian Georgia, anyway) was to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win in the state and refuse Donald........