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Had to check online to be 100% sure the superPAC that mailed it was Trump-linked. I've never heard of Elissa Slotkin before, but apparently she's a US rep for another district in Michigan. Our rep is Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian descent, so I'm guessing the PAC's thought process in designing this was they don't want to link Harris to our actual representative so just pick some other random rep nearby.

As someone who does not want Trump to be re-elected, it's at least relieving to know how easy it will be for the democrats to counter these dirty tricks. All they need to do is have their candidate make clear public statements to clarify that she doesn't want this linked to her campaign. Of course, she'll have to clearly point out which specific parts are offensive, so people don't just think she fine with antisemitism. Explaining that being anti-apartheid is not the same as being antisemitic is pretty straightforward though, so this should be no big deal.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn that’s greasy. But it’s also gonna be effective because like… it’s all things you can google and see it’s true. Also playing it as something the dems are putting out is evil genius.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, all of those things are true. As far as dirty tricks go, this one's pretty tame. Although I would assume that if you are a Muslim in Dearborn, you probably already made up your mind on whether you'll vote for democrats, third party or just sit it out.