The Republican National Committee released a video mashup on Monday attacking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s record on race.
The minute-long web video, called “The Clintons Hope You Forgot,” was blasted out just days before voters in the state of South Carolina, which has a large minority population, head to the polls. It recycles news clips from Clinton’s contentious 2008 primary contest against Barack Obama in order to play up allegations in the media at the time that her criticisms of the then-senator had racist undertones.
In one clip, Clinton refers to Obama’s declining support with “hardworking Americans, white Americans.” In another, she claims that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream “began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964.”
“The Clintons: only with you when they need you,” the ad says.
Clinton secured a victory in the Nevada caucuses this weekend thanks in large part to support from black voters, and the campaign is banking on receiving significant black and Latino support Saturday in South Carolina’s primary.
RNC spokeswoman Allison Moore told TPM in an email that the ad would only air online, but that the committee is “willing to spend as needed” to ensure that the spot reaches a broad audience on the Internet.
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