• Long-shot candidate for U.S. Congress William Braddock perhaps overshared on a 30-minute phone call with a conservative activist before he became a candidate, Politico reported on June 17.
Braddock, vying to represent the Tampa Bay, Florida, area, told Erin Olszewski that fellow candidate Anna Paulina Luna wouldn't be a problem because he would send "a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad" to make her "disappear."
"I really don't want to have to end anybody's life for the good of the people of the United States of America," Braddock said, adding "... if the poll says Luna's gonna win, she's gonna be gone. For the good of our country, we have to sacrifice the few."
Braddock described his hit squad as "No snipers. Up close and personal. So they know that the target is gone."
Olszewski turned the recordings over to police, saying, "Normal people don't say those things." [Politico, 6/17/2021]