The GOP has an out-of-control gun fetish (Arkansas Jake Bequette edition)

 

New York Times, 5/25/2022

In Arkansas, an ad run by a group supporting Jake Bequette, an Army veteran and former pro football player whose G.O.P. primary challenge to Senator John Boozman failed on Tuesday, repeated the phrase “Babies, borders, bullets” — calling those the “values we cherish” — and showed clips of the candidate taking aim with an assault rifle.

Jake received 20.7% of the vote.  The incumbent John Boozman won all of Arkansas' 75 counties with 58% of the vote.

5/31/2022 update starts here

New York Times, 5/25/2022

Josh finished in 2nd place in the 2022 Ohio GOP U.S. Senate primary with 23.9% of the vote.

Original 5/30/2022 post, Kay Ivey edition,  starts here.

New York Times, 5/25/2022

In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey unpacked lipstick, an iPhone and something else from her purse in one campaign advertisement — “a little Smith & Wesson .38,” she said.