Republican Candidate For Utah State Senate Goes Viral For Dropping The Hottest Bars Of 2022

The internet got a new addition to its oldest and most consistent genre of viral videos yesterday when a Twitter user discovered Utah State Senate candidate Linda Paulson adding to the illustrious canon of "geriatric white people being absolutely horrendous at rapping."

Paulson posted her campaign rap to YouTube two weeks ago, where it received a humble 47,000 views, but it gained over a million more views in less than 24 hours once @mattxiv posted it to Twitter.

It doesn't take a professional music critic to infer that Paulson doesn't quite have a knack for this whole rap thing, as her flow is chaotic and her rhymes, should there even be rhymes attempted, are slant rhymes at best (one line goes, "I want less government control and regulation / want to stop and expose political corruption"). The budgetary planning for the ad appears to have been "have grandson make campaign ad in Windows Moviemaker" as many users continue to mock the clip.

To her credit, Paulson does a decent job of outlining her politics slowly and memorably, which may help her when Utah's District 12 voters go to the ballot box. Things do start trending more contentious towards the end of her video when she starts shoeing in prominent Republican talking points like Critical Race Theory and transgender people, concluding with the line, "In schools, they're pushin' for new beliefs, and just to clarify, as a female adult, I know what a woman is."

Overall, social media has mostly been cringing in response to the video, though it appears at least some begrudgingly admit it maybe is a little catchy.