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  I really like Kunce and just in general, former Marines are great at throwing shade (see also: Ruben Gallego).
context: Good.  Call the MAGAs out.  Make them answer for their behavior for once. >
  
  This reminds me of Fetterman verses Dr. Oz. >
  
  Need more popcorn.
  
  Announcing a run for US Senate in 2024, the populist Missouri Democrat Lucas Kunce released an ad focusing on how his prospective opponent, the Republican senator Josh Hawley, ran from the mob he encouraged on the day the US Capitol came under attack.
  “I’ve done a lot of running in my life,” Kunce said, over footage of a man in a ripped suit running on a country road, dropping a US flag pin.
  “Running to stay healthy, running to fight for my country, running to defend democracy. And by the way, that guy you’re looking at, that’s not me. That’s our current US senator, Josh Hawley. This guy.”
  The ad then showed a famous picture from 6 January 2021, of Hawley raising a fist to Trump supporters outside the Capitol, a picture Hawley has used for fundraising purposes.
  
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  A former US marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Kunce, 40, also worked on international arms control. He has already mounted a Senate run, last year, losing the primary to Trudy Busch Valentine, a brewing heiress who went on to lose to Eric Schmitt, a former state attorney general.
  A Hawley spokesman told news outlets: “We welcome this desperate woke activist to yet another political race. He just barely finished losing his last one. Maybe he’s running in the wrong state.”
  Lis Smith, a Democratic consultant who ran Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in 2020, said Kunce “takes a metaphorical bat to coward Josh Hawley in his first ad”.
  Hawley, Smith said, “should never able to live down how he helped stoke the crowd on January 6 then sprinted away as they stormed the Capitol”. >
  
  Maybe Hawley is running in the wrong state.  He lives in Virginia not Missouri. >
  
  Keep pushing. These MAGA idiots hate being attacked for being weak or cowardly…because the attacks have the added benefit of being true and because they work. >
  
  Mo is gettable but you can't win by playing nice. You need to expose these guys. >
  
  Great. Hope he actually spends the next 22 months putting in the ground work throughout the state.