The tweet was shared as details of the El Paso shooting were still developing.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign tweeted out a photo of satirical tombstones over the weekend, including one featuring an election opponent’s name, hours after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that claimed the lives of 22 people.
The grave markers also identified concepts the senator has decried, such as socialism and the Green New Deal. The campaign’s tweet labeled McConnell the “Grim Reaper of Socialism” and shows the tombstones at the Fancy Farm picnic, a local Kentucky Catholic fundraising event.— Team Mitch August 3, 2019By Monday, McGrath responded with indignation, particularly in light of the two mass shootings that took place over the weekend, that the campaign posted the image on Twitter.
Story continuesKevin Golden, McConnell’s campaign manager, said in a statement that the tombstones were in reference to a cartoon, which the campaign has shared before and was originally critical of McConnell's record in the Senate.
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