GOP IN Senate Candidate Braun Drops Immigration Ad After Backlash

ANGOLA, IN — After recent backlash, AP News reports a U.S. Senate candidate from Indiana is discontinuing a TV ad featuring Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe and Indianapolis Colts player Edwin Jackson who were killed in a suspected drunken-driving crash last month by a person in the country illegally.

AP News says Republican Mike Braun told The (Angola) Herald Republican on Saturday he didn’t expect the negative reaction the ad received.

Deb Monroe, widow to Monroe, recently told the Associated Press that the ad “devastated” her family, calling on Braun to take it down, with reports his campaign wouldn't return her call.

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Monroe and Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson were killed in the early morning hours of Feb. 4 in Indianapolis.

AP News reports the ad narrated by Braun called for a crackdown on immigration and contained pictures of Monroe and Jackson, along with the mug shot of Manuel Orrego-Savala, a Guatemalan man charged in the Feb. 4 crash.

More: apnews.com

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