GLOVES OFF: Trump Campaign Releases Brutal Ad Blasting Soft-On-Crime Kamala Harris (VIDEO)
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In 1988, supporters of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush released one of the most effective and devastating attack ads in American history. Now, the Trump campaign is following in their footsteps.
Liberal Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis was leading Bush in the polls before Bush’s campaign unleashed the “Willie Horton” ad, which exposed Dukakis’s soft-on-crime record.
Horton was a convicted murderer who brutally ra*ed a woman and stabbed her partner while furloughed from prison under a Massachusetts program in place during Dukakis’s time as governor.
In the ad, a narrator lists Horton’s crimes while pictures of Bush and Dukakis and Horton’s mugshot flash across the screen. The narrator also states that Bush supports the death penalty for murderers,
