Elections

Senate GOP Bashes Ben Folds and Jason Isbell as Being Part of ‘Unhinged Left’

WAIT, WHAT?

Yes, you read that right. Ahead of a music-fueled Tennessee rally for Democratic Senate nominee Phil Bredesen, the NRSC went off on two popular singer-songwriters.

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So much for southern hospitality.

In the latest effort of campaign sabotage, the national organization devoted to electing Republicans in the Senate has called two popular musicians set to play at a Democratic rally in Tennessee part of the “unhinged left.”

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