Virginia race issues ad wars5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Is this what Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie mean by the American Dream?” the narrator says over television footage from this summer’s Charlottesville protests that attracted tiki-torch-toting neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members. In the minutelong “American Nightmare” spot, the children of minorities wake up rattled after dreaming about being chased through the streets by the Confederate-flag-toting, Gillespie bumper-stickered truck. The Latino Victory Fund ad released Monday accuses the Republican of making misleading statements about immigration that have stoked fears in minority communities. “Gillespie is trying to say to them, ‘You should worry about crime, illegal immigrants and drugs,’ and Northam has said to those moderate, independent voters that ‘You should worry about neo-Nazis and Confederates,’” Mr. Kidd said the increasingly intensified attacks appear to be aimed at winning over a small pool of undecided voters who could swing the election. Northam of enabling the violent MS-13 transnational criminal gang, and now Mr. Gillespie.īut that sort of run-of-the-mill campaigning is overshadowed by the ad wars. Marco Rubio of Florida, meanwhile, headlined an event for Mr. Northam in the primary, campaigned Monday alongside him. Tom Perriello, a favorite of progressives who lost to Mr. “It sort of signaled a new stage in the last couple weeks of the election that this was going to be a knife fight in the cage and it will be a cage fight to the death,” Mr. SEE ALSO: Ed Gillespie slams Latino Victory ad as a ‘new low’ “We have seen a muscular right politics for years, but I think we are seeing a more muscular progressive politics,” he said, adding that the tone of the campaign changed last week after Virginia Democrats started linking Mr. ![]()
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