Trump SuperPAC hires strategist who made racist ad for Jesse Helms
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It was one of the most notorious race-bating ads in political history.
In 1990, then-alive openly racist Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) was mired in a close race with black former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt when he ran an ad that was subtly entitled “Hands,” and featured a downtrodden white man crumpling up a rejection letter for a job that went to, “…a minority because of a racial quota”:
That ad was produced by Alex Castellanos, and given Trump’s notoriously racist appeal, the fit with pro-Trump SuperPAC Rebuilding America Now could not seem more natural. Yet the New York Times article breaking the news of the hiring features the headline “New ‘Super PAC’ Backing Donald Trump Hires Strategist Once Critical of Him,” and makes no mention of Castellanos’ history with Helms:
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