Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released this campaign ad to launch her 2018 bid for Sen. Bob Corker's vacant Senate seat. (Marsha Blackburn For Senate)If Rep. Marsha Blackburn was hoping for a big splashy launch for her U.S. Senate campaign — something that would fire a bolt of enthusiasm into the conservative base — Twitter has delivered. “I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts, thank God.”. pic.twitter.com/K3w4AMgW6i — Marsha Blackburn (@VoteMarsha) October 9, 2017This was where Twitter’s representatives reportedly called foul. “If this is omitted from the video it will be permitted to serve.”The Blackburn campaign, however, has not backed away from the statement.

Source: Washington Post October 10, 2017 06:26 UTC