Polk County School Board District 3 candidate Victor Sims began receiving screenshots of an Oct. 31 Facebook post from the Republican Party of Polk County soon after it appeared on Facebook.
The post, shared at almost 10 p.m. on Halloween included the text, “This Halloween, the scariest thing isn’t a costume. It’s Victor Sims on our School Board and Angie Nixon in the U.S. Senate. Don’t let Polk get spooked. Vote Republican on Tuesday, November 3.”
The text was accompanied by an AI-generated image depicting Sims with vampire fangs and a cape, alongside U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon in a witch’s hat and cloak, both of who are African American…