Marsha Blackburn wants her fans to buy $20 pizza cutters from her, so they can help her 'cut the red tape in Washington'
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- GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn is promoting her own pizza cutters, which she's offering for $20 each.
- Blackburn said the pizza cutter sales would allow her to continue to "cut the red tape in Washington."
- Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is also selling beer koozies for $17 and hats for $35.
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn is offering "one-of-a-kind" pizza cutters for the price of a $20 donation to her fundraising committee.
"Cutting the red tape," declares a slogan on the wheel cutter, which features the stars of the Tennessee state flag.
"I'm fighting to cut the red tape in Washington, but it's not easy," Blackburn said in a Monday promotional video for the kitchen utensil. "If you pledge $20 today, I'll send you your very own made-in-America pizza cutter."
Blackburn, who is running for reelection in 2024, is seen slicing a pepperoni pizza on a kitchen counter. "Together, we can cut the red tape in Washington once and for all," she said.
—Marsha Blackburn (@VoteMarsha) April 24, 2023
In comparison, pizza cutters of similar functional designs are available at Walmart for $2.96 and $7.98. A stainless steel variant is going for $10.99.
Blackburn's video, posted on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, was soon ridiculed by people on social media.
"That's the most rediculous thing I've seen all week," one person wrote.
With her pizza cutter venture, Blackburn joins a host of other GOP politicians hawking stylized household goods for donations.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who's running for the GOP presidential nomination, sells $35 hats with political slogans and beer koozies for $17.
Former President Donald Trump has offered supporters merchandise, memberships to societies he appears to have made up, and chances to win a dinner with him.
Items include a white T-shirt with red words for $47 donations and the title of "Great MAGA King," which appears to be a GIF of a medieval scroll for $25 donations. His store page sells merchandise like a Mar-a-Lago Christmas ornament for $95.
Across the aisle, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in August also touted $30 hats and T-shirts with the tagline "but her emails."
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is also selling $22 mugs and $32 t-shirts with designs alluding to the "Dark Brandon" meme.
A representative for Blackburn did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment sent outside regular business hours.