Former President Obama’s attorneys are demanding that South Carolina television stations “immediately” cancel a pro-Trump group’s television ad that attacks former Vice President Joe Biden.
Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill said the ad in question is “clearly designed to suppress turnout among minority voters in South Carolina by taking President Obama’s voice out of context.”
The ad paid for by the SuperPac ‘Committee to Defend the President’ uses excerpts from Obama’s 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” to garner the attention of black voters in South Carolina. It begins with “Joe Biden promised to help our community. It was a lie. Here’s President Obama”. The ad then plays a recording of Obama reading a passage from his memoir:
Plantation politics. Black people in the worst jobs. The worst housing. Police brutality rampant. But when the so-called black committeemen came around election time, we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket. Sell our souls for a Christmas turkey.
Great America Alliance caught the ire of Obama when it played an excerpt in an ad that ran before Georgia’s special House election in 2017 in which the former president suggested Democrats take black voters for granted.
Ted Harvey, chairman of the super PAC, said, “Democrats [pay] lip-service to the African-American community and we believe [Obama’s] point applies perfectly to Joe Biden.”
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