Missouri Republican Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez on Tuesday posted a bizarre video to social media in which she says she's standing on "the speaker's balcony."
In the video, the far-right candidate says, "I am at the speaker's balcony, and they don't like me here, and neither in Jefferson City. I don't give a f—. I speak truth, catch pedophiles, and will be Missouri's 41st Secretary of State."
Punchline News' Jake Sherman replied: "A campaign ad filmed on the speaker's balcony, where campaign politics are explicitly prohibited."
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Journalist Lauren Windsor, who recently exposed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's biased views in favor of Republicans, wrote: Alt headline: @SpeakerJohnson appears to have violated House ethics rules…
After one X user wrote, "We need to stop using words like, 'appeared' & 'allegedly' when there’s actual proof the thing happened," Windsor replied, "Not in this case. We don't know definitively that it was Johnson who let her on the balcony. Might have been a staffer. Ofc[ourse] he will blame a staffer either way."
Former Democratic strategist Jim Manley wrote: "I am sorry- but are voters really go to go for this loser? My god."
The Nation's Elie Mystal added: "cc Merrick Garland. Make the last six months of your public career before you go off to write books retroactively justifying your tenure and teach at the Harvard Institute of Politics, useful."
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Gomez's website characterizes her as a "real estate investor, financier, strategist, former NCAA Division I swimmer," who "makes no apologies for rejecting deception, corruption, and mediocrity."
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