It’s the most jaw-dropping political ad of the year.
Attack ads are nothing new in the television age, but one campaign video targeting an Arizona congressman just hit a new level of “whoa.”
More like… “whoaaaaaa.”
David Brill, an Arizona Democrat going after Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s seat in Congress, released a series of campaign ads this week attacking Gosar’s character, morals and politics while urging Arizona residents to vote him out.
The videos star none other than… (wait for it)
Why did they do it?
“None of us are doing this for publicity,” David Gosar told the Phoenix New Times on Friday. “None of us even want to do it.”
Gosar’s siblings ― David, Gaston, Grace, Jennifer, Joan and Tim ― have all endorsed their brother’s opponent.
Gosar, a four-term congressman, is a staunch conservative and supporter of President Trump.
He supports building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and suggested that the Army should build it. He’s joined Trump’s relentless attacks on the media and once called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Capitol Police to arrest any undocumented immigrants who attended this year’s State of the Union as guests.
“It would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist,” Grace Gosar says in one of the videos.
Gosar responded to his siblings angrily on Twitter:
