Missouri GOP trashed for claiming Josh Hawley opponent has 'fake southern accent' - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
By: Sarah K. Burris
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The Democrat running against Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is being criticized by Republicans for having a "fake southern accent." But St. Louis' Riverfront Times thinks that Lucas Kunce "sounds like Missouri."
The National Republican Senatorial Committee and conservative news website The Washington Free Beacon promoted a video of Kunce saying he sounds fake. The problem, the paper explained, is that the NRSC and Washington Free Beacon are in Washington, and their expertise on Missouri might be somewhat lacking.
"Kunce's accent doesn't change from clip to clip" the Times explained. "Nor does it sound particularly Southern. In all of them, he sounds like a guy from Missouri. If the ad proved anything, it's that whomever incumbent Senator Josh Hawley hired to make his attack ads really has no idea what a Southern accent — or a Missouri accent, for that matter — is supposed to sound like."
They noted that the response to the Republicans hasn't been very positive. One person responded by asking if they needed a "yoga mat for that stretch."
Others simply ridiculed the RNC for thinking people from Missouri sound like they're from Virginia because that's where he actually lives. "But this is what Missouri sounds like."
The comments are a reference to a Kansas City Star editorial board post alleging Hawley "scoffs" at the residency requirements for Missouri candidates. Reports from the Star revealed that Hawley actually lives in a $1.3 million home in Northern Virginia and uses his sister's address in the Ozarks to vote.
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all of kunce's campaign ads need to start with showing hawley walking into the capitol with raised fist in solidarity with the seditious mob, and end with that trumpster coward running down a hallway to escape them on 1/6/21.
The Missouri motto is ''show me'' and this shows Hawley at his best. Rasing a fist to scum and then running from the scum...
Hawley is my hero. Such moral courage!
Having lived in SE Missouri for 7 years I keep track of the politics there. This is the bio of Lucus Kunce: 13 years in the US Marine Corps with multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Missouri born and raised from a very humble background.
So Hawley actually lives in a mansion in Virginia and uses his sister's address to vote. Seems a bit sketchy to me
Indeed it does but not unexpected of Hawley:
Mo. Sen. Hawley denounced by mentor for role in Jan. 6
He also lost a book deal he had with Simon and Schuster over his actions around Jan. 6th.
Josh Hawley on 1/6/21.