'Clearly a metaphor': Senate candidate Eric Greitens defends viral advert

Missouri Republican Senate candidate Eric Greitens defended his "RINO looking" advert Tuesday, claiming it was "clearly a metaphor."

"Each regular particular person across the state of Missouri noticed that," Greitens mentioned following backlash on-line for the violent implications of his advert. The advert options males in tactical army uniforms with rifles kicking down the door of a house and throwing a smoke grenade inside. Greitens, additionally armed, then enters the house, portraying a hunt for many who are "Republicans in identify solely."

The advert was launched Monday however has already garnered sufficient backlash to elicit a response from Greitens throughout a radio interview. Twitter gave the video a warning label for "abusive habits."

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"I don’t suppose there's a actual particular person in Missouri who thinks about it actually. Not one. What you’re seeing is an amazing quantity of fake outrage from leftists and RINOs," Greitens mentioned. "[The ad] has a humorousness."

The candidate can be going through allegations of bodily abuse. His ex-wife, Sheena, claimed in March to have proof that Greitens abused her and one in all their sons as lately as 2019. Greitens has denied the allegations but faces calls to drop out of the race, even from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).

Greitens was beforehand Missouri's governor however resigned in 2018, lower than 18 months into his time period, after a intercourse scandal arose wherein Greitens was revealed to have taken a photograph with a hairstylist through the course of an affair. His spouse subsequently divorced him two years later after almost a decade of marriage.