From The Washington Examiner:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign responded Tuesday to a social media picture that shows a group of boys at political event in Kentucky while they jokingly kiss and choke a cardboard cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez first responded to the picture in a tweet she later deleted, which read, "Here's the close up, in case you're having trouble recognizing them in the photo they posted to social media. Look forward to hearing your update on these #TeamMitch values!"

First of all, the young men are not involved in the Senator's campaign and secondly, they're just boys (and at least weren't wearing masks and beating up  old men) and in the third place, it's not much different than how people - esp. kids-  act when posing with cutouts of Dumbo, Bozo the Clown or Zippy the Pinhead.

Strike "much" b/c come to think about it,there's no difference at all.