Black & # 039; lynching & # 039; The ad illustrates racial connotations, anger in the campaign ads of...
Black & # 039; lynching & # 039; The ad illustrates racial connotations, anger in the campaign ads of the United States
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many political announcements in this year's US elections UU They have an unusually hard and personal impact, some with racial connotations.
In Arkansas, a radio ad this week suggests that white Democrats could start lynching black men. In New York, supporters of a congressman drew attention to the story of his black rival as a rapper. In California, Ohio and Virginia, candidates and their supporters consider their opponents to be terrorists. In Pennsylvania, a Republican state senator threatened to "stomp" the face of his Democratic rival with golf spikes.
And in Arizona, the six brothers of a legislator urged voters not to re-elect their Republican brother.
While angry ads are a long-standing feature of US politics, many published little effort this year to disguise the wrath of their candidates, a vivid illustration of what many experts see as a public dialogue since President Donald Trump shook his head. American politics.
Excessive spending for a non-presidential election cycle and the speed with which ads are broadcast online increase the effect. Political spending on television ads increased by 19 percent compared to 2014, the last cycle of parliamentary elections in the United States, to $ 2.9 billion, levels closer to spending for a presidential election, according to MAGNA, a arm of the advertising agency IPG Mediabrands.
"As the amount of money in campaigns increases, I think the volume of negative ads is increasing," said Nathan Gonzales of Inside Elections, a non-partisan campaign analysis group.
A radio ad that aired this week in Arkansas in support of the Republican representative of the United States, French Hill, featured women with exaggerated and stereotyped African-American accents who said black voters should support Hill and Republicans because Democrats will lynch blacks when "a white girl screams a rape".
Hill's campaign did not publish the announcement and condemned it as "scandalous". Hill and his Democratic opponent, Clarke Tucker, are white.
LINKED TO THE KAVANAUGH HEARING
The announcement cites the allegation that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl when she was a 17-year-old high school student. Kavanaugh denied the accusation, which dominated the final days of the Senate's confirmation and led the Republicans to say that the Democrats had abandoned the idea of the presumption of innocence.
In the ad, a woman says that "white democrats will once again lynch blacks."
"We have to protect our men and children," says the woman. "We can not afford white Democrats to take us back to the old days of racial verdicts, life sentences and lynchings when a white girl screams rape."
Bruce Bartlett, senior policy advisor in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush called it "the most racist ad of a Republican I've come across."
Vernon Robinson of Black Americans for the President's Agenda, a political action committee, produced the announcements. He defended them in a telephone interview on Friday and said they will run through the elections.
"I could not believe that the lunatic fringe of the Democratic Party was putting pressure on the defendants," Robinson told Reuters, referring to Kavanaugh's hearings, which did not look racial. "This is a serious threat to black men and women who love them."
Malik Russell, a spokesman for the civil rights group at the NAACP, said the announcement was "one of the worst examples of racist ignorance and historical misappropriation." He blamed Trump for setting the tone.
"Racism, hateful and disrespectful rhetoric directed at immigrants, women and communities of color coming from the White House has served as a powerful facilitator for those who support white supremacy throughout the country," Russell said.
The change of tone occurs when the Democrats fight for majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, which would give them more power to oppose the Republican president's agenda.
Opinion polls generally show Democrats with a good chance of getting the 23 seats in the House of Representatives they need to win the majority, and a tougher battle to get the two seats they would need for a majority in the Senate in the elections of November 6.
That partly explains the preponderance of the negative television ads in the Senate races, with half of the ads that are published from September 4 until October 1 taking a negative tone, according to an analysis of the Wesleyan Media Project, which Track political advertising. According to the study, more than 40.8 percent of the House announcements and 43.2 percent of the governors' announcements took a negative tone.
REPUBLICAN NEGATIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS
He found that more than a third of Republican television ads for Senate and House of Representatives races were negative, which he defined as ads that focus solely on a candidate's rival.
That's much higher than the 18.3 percent of ads in the Democratic Senate and the 14.1 percent of Democratic House announcements that were negative in tone. It also represented a change from 2014, when the ads of the Democrats were substantially more negative than those of the Republicans.
Other electoral notices of 2018 were criticized for threatening violence or perceiving xenophobia.
Scott Wagner, a Republican who challenges incumbent Democrat Tom Wolf for the governor of Pennsylvania, threatened his rival with the announcement of "golf clubs." Polls show that Wolf has a wide advantage.
"Governor Wolf, let me tell you, between now and November 6, you'd better put a catcher mask on your face because I'm going to stomp your face with golf clubs," Wagner said in the video.
Wagner later took the announcement amid criticism of national Republican leaders and said he had "chosen a poor metaphor."
The New York Republican representative, John Faso, has repeatedly directed posts against his Democratic candidate, a former Rhodes scholar and a Harvard-educated lawyer, highlighting the offensive language that Antonio Delgado used as a young rapper candidate.
Delgado responded by saying that his past lyrics were taken out of context in an attempt to "differentiate" him from voters in one of the whitest districts of the state.
The Republican representative of California, Duncan Hunter, ran a place accusing his challenger, Ammar Campa-Najjar, of trying to "hide his family's links to terrorism." The ad focuses on his heritage: his mother is Mexican-American and his father is Palestinian. He calls him a "millenarian, Palestinian, Mexican democrat", financed by the "Muslim Brotherhood" and a "security risk".
Campa-Najjar worked in the White House of President Barack Obama and later in the Department of Labor, jobs that require security clearance. Although his Palestinian grandfather, Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, was accused by Israel of being involved in the massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972 at the Munich Olympic Games, Campa-Najjar was born 16 years after the death of Yusuf al-Najjar.
The Democratic candidates for Congress in Ohio and California have been similarly labeled for their respective work in a law firm that once handled lawsuits involving Libya and for having been a substitute English teacher at a Muslim high school.
The complete electoral coverage of Reuters: here
Report of Maria Caspani; Edited by Jason Szep, Frances Kerry and Bill Trott
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