YouTube has removed Missouri Rep. Billy Long’s new U.S. Senate campaign ad, saying it violated the site’s community guidelines.

In the ad, which was posted last week, Long repeated the inaccurate claim that President Joe Biden “stole” the 2020 presidential election.

“I’m running for Senate to stop the insanity, stop the wokeness and stop the Democrats from stealing another election,” Long, a Springfield Republican, said in the ad.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and all legal challenges brought by the campaign of President Donald Trump and its allies were dismissed.

Long’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

YouTube’s community guidelines prohibit misinformation about election integrity, defined as “content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of select past national elections, after final election results are officially certified.”

A spokesman for YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

The Missouri U.S. Senate race contains a crowded field of Republicans, including Attorney General Eric Schmitt, former Gov. Eric Greitens and Missouri Rep. Vicki Hartzler. While all the candidates have talked about their support of Trump and his policies, Long has gone out of his way to tout his ties with the former president, and he hired former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway as a political adviser.

Long has also...

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