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David Axelrod: The Biden Super PAC Ad Is ‘Tasteless’ And ‘Exploitative’

General Election 2015 campaign - April 18h. File photo dated 15/5/2014 of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband's American election guru David Axelrod who has said that Tory attacks on Miliband and his relationship with hi... General Election 2015 campaign - April 18h. File photo dated 15/5/2014 of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband's American election guru David Axelrod who has said that Tory attacks on Miliband and his relationship with his brother have obviously failed. Issue date: Saturday April 18, 2015. Axelrod said the speed with which the Tory "back stabbing" attack has been dropped demonstrated it was a flawed tactic. See PA story ELECTION Labour Axelrod. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire URN:22761525 MORE LESS
By Sara Jerde
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October 7, 2015 5:00 p.m.
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The man who helped engineer the campaign that brought President Obama to the White House said on Wednesday that he found a super PAC ad urging Vice President Joe Biden to run in 2016 “tasteless” and “exploitative.”

The advertisement, which the Draft Biden super PAC released Wednesday, was about how tragedies shaped his political career. It featured audio from a commencement speech that Biden gave during which he reflected on the car crash that killed his wife and daughter, and included a photo of his son, Beau Biden, who recently died from brain cancer.

Obama’s former adviser and strategist, David Axelrod, criticized the ad after it was released.

Axelrod is the director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and a senior political commentator for CNN. He told NBC’s “Today” show in August that he “would not” advise Biden to run for President.

Here’s the super PAC ad:

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Sara Jerde (@SaraJerde)  Sara Jerde is a newswriter based in New York. Her bylines have appeared in The Star-Ledger, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Columbus Dispatch. She graduated from Ohio University. Send emails to [email protected] and follow her @SaraJerde.
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