That Senate campaign in Massachusetts that is supposed to be the premier Senate race in the country? Its highlight this week was a gaffe by Senator Scott P. Brown in which he said he had been busy holding secret meetings with kings and queens.
In a radio interview in which Mr. Brown responded to criticism that he was not focused on substantive issues, he said: “Each and every day that I’ve been a United States senator, I’ve been either discussing issues, meeting on issues, and secret meetings with kings and queens and prime ministers and business leaders and military leaders. Talking, voting, working on issues every single day. So I don’t quite know what to say.”
Democrats demanded a list of the royal confabs; a Brown spokesman said later that Mr. Brown had misspoken when he said kings and queens.
Mr. Brown, a Republican, is locked in an intense campaign against Elizabeth Warren, his Democratic challenger, whom his campaign and its allies have pummeled for several weeks over her claims to having Native American ancestry.
On Friday, the Massachusetts Democratic Party put out a new video in which Mr. Brown is seen on several occasions referring to meetings with kings and queens. The video is set to Abba’s “Dancing Queen” and mock him as a lightweight living in a fairy tale.
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