"Racial left opponent" (Rand Paul fundraising email)

[Nevilledog]

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Charles Booker
@Booker4KY
"Racial left opponent?"

Rand Paul can't see the people of Kentucky. And he clearly can't see past the color of my skin.
Screenshot of an email. Sender is "Rand Paul" from [e-mail], sent Friday, July 2 at 1:19PM.

The text of the email reads: "Dear [redacted], yesterday I got an Act-Blue backed racial left opponent for my reelection. That means millions likely coming in to attack me and lie about me in my race. While I don't believe for a minute the people of Kentucky want a defund the police, green new deal, tax hiking person to represent them; I'll still need to fight back starting today. Will you help?" The first line, "racial left opponent for my reelection," is underlined in red.

3:27 PM · Jul 2, 2021

[dawg day]

1. I will give him a chance-- Paul, I mean. Maybe it was a Freudian slip...

He meant RADICAL left?

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

4. I know you are being sarcastic

But autocorrect on phones are words that people use all the time…so Paul must use racial a lot

[dawg day]

7. It'll be funny to hear how he explains this--

"I didn't MEAN racial! I don't see race! I'm color-blind! I never even noticed the race of my opponent!"

Ha ha.

[marble falls]

2. "Racial left" sound like a dog whistle to me, I bet KKK/RWer ears pricked right up hearing that ...

... funny how racist shit deny their racism and then continually bring up race in every conversation.

[underthematrix]

3. I sent Rand Paul a tweet. And no he wrote what he meant.

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[stillcool]

5. he had to underline the 'racial left' in red

just so as his peeps read "black"

[msongs]

6. bonus points - he's being attcked in his race "my race" yet he bad mouths racial nt