Republicans criticized Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock over the selection of a hip-hop artist who headlined a campaign event Monday after a troubling screenshot emerged that appeared to be from the rapper’s Twitter account.
BRS Kash, a 27-year-old rapper, had urged the crowd at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the town of Lithonia to go out and vote, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The event was called a drive-in rally that aimed to gin up last-minute support from young voters for Ossoff and Warnock, the two Democrats seeking to unseat the state’s two Republican senators in the crucial Jan. 5 runoff.
The screenshot in question has explicit language and appears to make light of a woman telling a man to stop his sexual advances.
Nathan Brand, a spokesman from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, retweeted the screenshot and wrote, “This is who Georgia Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff had headline their event today. Will they denounce this disgusting individual?”
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