\nCongressional Republican candidate Jerone Davison<\/a>\u00a0prepares to gun down Ku Klux Klan members in his latest campaign advertisement released on Wednesday morning. The video portrays the Klansmen as Democrats.\n<\/p>\n \nDavison is a political newcomer and former running back for the Oakland Raiders, (now Las Vegas Raiders). His campaign is managed by Austin Steinbart<\/a>, a.k.a. BabyQ, a QAnon influencer who claims to be from the future.\n<\/p>\n \nThe team\u2019s new ad quickly went viral on Twitter, amassing more than 1 million views in the first five hours, then doubling that amount in total views by the afternoon. Davison had fewer than 5,000 Twitter followers before the ad dropped, and the total increased to more than 8,700 over the next several hours.\n<\/p>\n Make Rifles Great Again \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udfff<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49https:\/\/t.co\/J7lHnodhku<\/a>#JeroneForCongress<\/a>#2A<\/a> #SelfDefense<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Gs6iAHVVAP<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4 (@Jerone4Congress) July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nThe 51-year-old Republican is a Mississippi native who first came to the Valley to play football for Arizona State University. He fell in love with the area. <\/p>\n Since his NFL stint in the 1990s, Davison has worked as a pastor, author, and public speaker.\n<\/p>\n \nIn the new ad called \u201cMake Rifles Great Again,\u201d a play on former President Donald Trump\u2019s iconic slogan, a horde of pitchfork-wielding Klansmen advance violently toward Davison\u2019s Tempe home.\n<\/p>\n \nDavison calmly sips from a star-spangled coffee mug before donning a pair of sleek Ray-Ban sunglasses and producing a modded, semiautomatic KelTec SUB2000 rifle.\n<\/p>\n \n\u201cWhen this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semiautomatic and all 30 rounds,\u201d Davison says in the ad.\n<\/p>\n \nA single Klan hood floats ominously in the swimming pool in the final frames of the video.\n<\/p>\n \nWhile Second Amendment enthusiasts dubbed it \u201cthe best political ad ever,\u201d replies to the ad on Twitter were largely critical.\n<\/p>\n \n\u201cThis is a disturbing gun-fetish fantasy and I hope it never comes to be reality,\u201d notable Ubisoft game developer Dan Amrich tweeted<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \nDavison is vying to unseat incumbent Democratic Congressman Greg Stanton in Arizona\u2019s new Congressional District 4<\/a>, which includes Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, and Ahwatukee.\n<\/p>\n \nFirst, he\u2019ll face four other lesser-known Republicans in the August 2 primary election. Polling data for the primary is not available.\n<\/p>\n \nDavison\u2019s campaign believes he has a great chance to secure the GOP bid.\n<\/p>\n \n\u201cWe like to draw attention to the fact that the KKK was started by Democrats and is run by Democrats,\u201d Steinbart, the campaign manager, told Phoenix New Times<\/i> on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n \nA 2020 fact check<\/a> from USA Today<\/i> revealed that the Democratic Party did not found the KKK, an apocryphal trope often regurgitated by the modern alt-right.<\/p>\n However, decades later, a Democrat splinter group that objected to the civil rights program of the Democratic Party led to a surge of KKK activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the south. <\/p>\n \n\u201cWhen I grew up in the south, the KKK would be coming through, and everybody in our community would be scared and afraid, but I wasn\u2019t afraid because my father had guns in the house and guns made me feel safe,\u201d Davison told an alt-right blog on Wednesday morning. \u201cThe past is still relevant today because the Democrats are still terrorists.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \nWhen he\u2019s not claiming to be a time-traveling QAnon shaman, Steinbart has spent time in prison. In 2020, he was arrested<\/a> on suspicion of using a synthetic, urine-filled penis to dodge drug tests. He was released last year after 225 days behind bars<\/a>\u00a0for leaking NFL players\u2019 brain scans and medical records.\n<\/p>\n \nDavison also hid QAnon slogans on his campaign website.\n<\/p>\n\n
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