Jerone Lamar Davison (born September 16, 1970) is a former

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. He played for the

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in 1994 and for the

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from 1996 to 1997. He ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. House in

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in 2022.

Political career

Davison was a Republican candidate for U.S. Representative in the

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election, in . He lost the primary election on August 2, 2022. In July 2022, Davison released a 30-second advertisement in which he protects his home from "a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods" with an

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. The advertisement went viral, gathering more than 5 million views on

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