Republican Senate candidate Tommy Thompson’s campaign says his son has apologized for suggesting that voters should send President Obama back to Kenya, the Associated Press reported.

Jason Thompson, the son of the former Wisconsin governor, said at a brunch on Sunday hosted by the Kenosha County Republican Party when he was caught on camera saying: “We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago — or Kenya.” said Jason Thompson, an attorney at a large Milwaukee law firm. The comment drew laughs from the crowd, and one woman joked, “We are taking donations for that Kenya trip.”

Obama’s father was Kenyan, but the president was born in Hawaii.

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