Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Pro-Trump group ad seeks to pit Michelle Obama against Clinton   Reuters News Posted: Oct 18, 2016 By Ginger Gibson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Super PAC backing Republican Donald Trump is buying TV airtime in parts of Florida beginning this week for a commercial aimed at using first lady Michelle Obama’s words against Hillary Clinton to erode the Democratic presidential candidate's support from women voters in the battleground state.
The ad – which the Super PAC has already been running online – shows Michelle Obama in 2007 saying, “If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House," which could be taken (and probably is)  as a reference to infidelity by Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton.
The ad says Michelle Obama was talking about Hillary Clinton. However, at the time, then-candidate Barack Obama denied that his wife's words referred to his opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Representatives for Clinton and Michelle Obama declined to comment on the commercial.

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