The plot has really thickened on that North Carolina GOP House candidate, B.J. Lawson, who ran an ad featuring a fake “Morgan Freeman” voiceover. It turns out that the GOP consultant who created the ad has a history of making a sales pitch to candidates: That he can get Morgan Freeman to record ads for them.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=118789