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Who is Jerome Davison? Black GOP candidate vows to fight Klanhoods with AR-15 in ad campaign

Congressional Republican candidate prepares to gun down Ku Klux Klan members in his latest campaign advertisement released on Wednesday, July 5

Former NFL player Jerone Davison, 51, who is one of five Republicans running for the GOP nomination in Arizona's 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of Tempe, Mesa and Chandler released the ad with a tweet that said “Make Rifles Great Again” on Wednesday, July 5. “Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR-15 for self-defense,” Davison is heard saying in the thirty-second video. “That no one could possibly need all 30 rounds. “But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds.”

The 51-year-old's campaign is managed by Austin Steinbart aka. BabyQ, a QAnon influencer who claims to be from the future. The team’s new ad quickly went viral on Twitter, amassing more than 1 million views in the first five hours, then doubling that amount in total views by the afternoon. Davison had fewer than 5,000 Twitter followers before the ad dropped, and the total increased to more than 8,700 over the next several hours.

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In the video, at one point, the large group is seen charging a residential home with rakes, hammers, axes, and bats while Davison waits at a window wearing sunglasses and holding a semi-automatic weapon. The group runs away after Davison walks outside the home with the firearm and the advertisement ends with a still shot of a white hood sitting in water before cutting to the Republican looking off in the distance.

Davidson's ad campaign for AR-15s to stay legal comes two days after a 22-year-old killed seven people and injured dozens more with an AR-15 at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Since then, many Democratic lawmakers and gun-reform activists have called out banning semi-automatic weapons in the US.

Who is Jerone Davidson?

Davidson is a former Arizona State University student-athlete and NFL player. He spent his childhood growing up in Picayune, Mississippi. Since his NFL stint in the 1990s, Davison has worked as a pastor, author, and public speaker. Davidson is running against Democratic Congressman Greg Stanton in Arizona’s new Congressional District 4, which includes Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, and Ahwatukee. Davison’s campaign believes he has a great chance to secure the GOP bid. “We like to draw attention to the fact that the KKK was started by Democrats and is run by Democrats,” Steinbart, the campaign manager, told Phoenix New Times on Wednesday, July 5.

While many Republicans immediately praised Davison’s video as “awesome”, dozens of other social media users were shocked over the inclusion of the Ku Klux Klan in order to tout the Second Amendment. “Don’t know how to feel about this. What do you guys think?” wrote former Congressional candidate Barrington Martin II.

“After lying for years that it really was interested in minority outreach, the GOP establishment is about to get its minds blown by the fact new minorities coming to the party in spite of them are going to be even more radicalized than their typical white base,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace tweeted.

“Donald Trump’s presidency normalized hyperbole and absurdity in political advertising. And that alone may stand as his greatest contribution to the world,” wrote author Justin O’Donnell.

“This is a disturbing gun-fetish fantasy and I hope it never comes to be reality,” notable Ubisoft game developer Dan Amrich tweeted.

A 2020 fact check from USA Today revealed that the Democratic Party did not find the KKK. However, decades later, a Democrat splinter group that objected to the civil rights program of the Democratic Party led to a surge of KKK activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the south.

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“When I grew up in the south, the KKK would be coming through, and everybody in our community would be scared and afraid, but I wasn’t afraid because my father had guns in the house and guns made me feel safe,” Davison told an alt-right blog on Wednesday morning, Phoenix New Times reported. “The past is still relevant today because the Democrats are still terrorists.” Pro-Second Amendment is the keystone of Davison's campaign, but he’s also prioritizing criminal justice reform. He wants to curb prosecutorial overcharging and racial bias in the criminal justice system, objectives more commonly associated with the Democrats.