'Can't make this stuff up': MAGA candidate busted for shopping spree to create cowboy look
A diehard MAGA Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada shared an ad showing him stepping into his pickup truck in full cowboy regalia with a western landscape backdrop.
But according to a new report, Jeff Gunter's image is "more hat than cattle."
Gunter allegedly used $800 in campaign cash to buy his cowboy clothes at a chain retailer just before the ad was shot, The Daily Beast reported.
"According to Gunter’s filings with the Federal Election Commission, his campaign spent $796.38 at Boot Barn — the self-proclaimed largest workwear retailer in the country — which sells an identical burgundy top [as he was wearing] for $29.99 and a Nevada belt buckle for $45," The Beast's report stated.
Gunter’s campaign confirmed to The Daily Beast that the Boot Barn buying spree was for the campaign ad and was reported in his October FEC filings. The cowboy look is a major "rebrand" for Gunter, a wealthy dermatologist who raised his family in California, the Beast wrote.
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“Jeff Gunter is a California Democrat who used campaign funds at a California-based store to play dress-up as a Nevada cowboy,” a national Republican strategist told The Beast. “You can’t make this stuff up.”
As The Beast's report points out, Gunter is simultaneously registered as a Republican in Nevada and as a Democrat in California.
"The exact date of Gunter’s Boot Barn shopping spree is obscured in his FEC reports, though the campaign’s confirmation means he racked up the charges before the ad debuted in August. But instead of reporting the purchase as a traditional campaign disbursement, the expense appears folded in among a number of other costs as part of a debt that the campaign owes to Gunter himself," the Beast reported, adding that Gunter has taken this approach before.
"Gunter, who has loaned his campaign more than $2.5 million outright, has chosen to classify a number of self-funded incidental campaign expenses as debts, meaning he can pay himself back later — with his donors’ money."
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