A striking new digital video by Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker uses a noose around his own neck to highlight Sen. Rand Paul’s temporary blockage of an anti-lynching law.
“I have become the first Black Kentuckian to receive the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate,” Booker says in the video rolled out Wednesday. “My opponent, the very person who compared expanded health care to slavery. The person who said he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act. The person who single-handedly blocked an anti-lynching act from being federal law.”
The Booker campaign said the ad is running digitally and being shared on the campaign’s social media platforms, but it is unclear how much money is being allocated to distribute the evocative spot.
