US midterms 2018: The worst attack ads so far
As Republicans and Democrats continue their political war, both sides
are resorting to brutal attack ads in an effort to win the 2018 midterm
elections.
Newshub has trawled through the worst and created a montage of the worst
moments, revealing just how far both sides are willing to sink.
In the Georgia gubernatorial race between Republican Brian Kemp and
Democrat Stacey Abrams, Mr Kemp used an ad where he poses with his
pickup truck and claims: "I've got a big truck just in case I need to
round-up criminal illegals and take them home myself".
Republican Representative Duncan Hunter, from California, approved an
advertisement accusing his Palestinian-Mexican-American opponent, Ammar
Campa-Najjar, of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and trying to
"infiltrate" Congress.
In New York, black Democratic lawyer Antonio Delgado's previous career
as a rapper has been dragged up and juxtaposed against clips from his
own ads.
His lyrics include lines like "gotcha sweatin' this like ya having sex
to a porno flick" and "God Bless Iraq". Mr Delgado says these are being
taken out of context in an effort to 'other' him.
Democrats have returned fire - in one case hiring Academy Award-nominated director Richard Linklater to direct an ad.
An advertisement from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
shows a corporate board boasting about how they got nearly all of the
Republican tax cut while using employees as human furniture.
Another shows bigfoot hunting for Minnesota Republican Rep Erik Paulsen,
accusing him of being hard to find and taking money from large
pharmaceutical companies.
And Mr Linklater was hired to direct an ad accusing Texas Republican
Senator Ted Cruz of being weak for failing to stand up to President
Trump after he insulted Mr Cruz's wife and implied his father was
involved in the JFK assassination.
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