The Ohio investment banker endorsed Monday by Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul in his campaign for U.S. Senate just launched a new commercial with Paul in a $2 million ad buy across the state.
In the ad, which is part of a $10 million ad push, the senator said that he believes that Mike Gibbons will be an ally in the fight against President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.
“I’ve stood strong against the mandates of Dr. Fauci, but I need help. That’s why I’m endorsing Mike Gibbons for Senate,” the senator said. “I’m Rand Paul. I know Mike Gibbons will join me in demanding that Fauci is immediately fired and removed from office. Mike’s a tough businessman, not a politician. Mike Gibbons has the courage to stand with me to defeat the Washington machine.”
A conservative operative familiar with the Gibbons campaign and its strategy told The Star News Network, while President Donald J. Trump hasn’t gotten involved in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, Gibbons scored the next best thing.
“What makes this such an effective ad is that Paul is the second-most popular politician in Ohio, behind President Trump,” he said.
“Mike Gibbons is making his moves, and with the latest poll showing him leading the Senate race, he is pulling out all the stops,” the operative said.
The poll, released late Tuesday, found the Ohio businessman leads Josh Mandel, JD Vance, and Jane Timken in the the fairly crowded field of Republicans vying to fill the open seat left by Sen. Rob Portman, who announced in January 2021 that he would not seek re-election.
“Mike’s smart, and he’s done a lot for the party and the president behind the scenes,” the operative said. “The only question was whether he could get the public support as a politician himself.”
In an op-ed for the Fox News website posted Wednesday, the Kentucky senator wrote that Fauci continues to mislead Congress and the public about his role in taking a virus that did not attack humans, and used gain-of-function mutation methods to breed the virus harmless to humans into the deadly COVID-19 virus, which attacks human lungs.
Answering that question truthfully, which he is legally compelled to do when speaking before Congress, would have meant illuminating the deceitful game he and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins have been playing about COVID’s origins and their support of the type of dangerous research that could have led to the pandemic.
How ironic that the frantic efforts by Fauci and Collins to label esteemed scientists as “fringe” and “conspiracy theorists” for daring to suggest that COVID came from a lab was actually a sinister conspiracy of their own.
They diligently worked with Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance – which was a recipient of NIH funds to study bat coronaviruses and the potential risks to humans at a lab located in China – to discredit those who deign to question their conclusions. This triumvirate of gain-of-function research cheerleaders worked with their allies to, in the words of Collins, “take down” scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford for simply considering the merits of a lab leak theory.
Answering that question truthfully, which he is legally compelled to do when speaking before Congress, would have meant illuminating the deceitful game he and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins have been playing about COVID’s origins and their support of the type of dangerous research that could have led to the pandemic.
The GOP Senate primary is May 3.
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Neil W. McCabe is the national political editor of The Star News Network. Send him news tips at: [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @neilwmccabe2.
Photo “Mike Gibbons and Rand Paul” by Mike Gibbons.
