'Don't be weak and gay': Missouri GOP candidate releases epic new campaign ad

On Sunday, Missouri Republican secretary of state candidate Valentina Gomez released a new campaign ad in which she told Americans not to be "weak and gay."

While running through the streets of St. Louis' Soulard District, a historically LGBTQ-friendly neighborhood, the 24-year-old wore a weighted vest with a black and white American flag patch and urged people to instead, "stay f*cking hard."

"In America, you can be anything you want," Gomez said while Lupe Fiasco's The Show Goes On played in the background, "so don't be weak and gay."

"Stay f*cking hard," she added, as an image of her toting a gun next to a truck with an American flag popped up on screen.

In the post, she tagged Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, writing, "MAGA."

"Don't be weak and gay 2024," the Hodge Twins replied.

"You got my vote," another user added.

Fiasco, who has long spoken out against homophobia, especially in the rap industry, appeared to respond to Gomez's use of his song.

"We are aware and currently taking action," he wrote in a post on X.

Gomez is no stranger to controversy. As the New York Post reports, she went viral earlier this year after setting fire to a stack of books from the public library she claimed were seeking to "groom" children, and vowed to ban LGBTQ books if elected.

She will face off against three other candidates in the Republican primary, scheduled for August 6.