The advertisement features Elizabeth Heng, a Republican from California’s Central Valley who lost her 2018 challenge to Jim Costa, a Democrat, by 15 percentage points.
“This is the face of socialism,” Ms. Heng says, as a picture of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez burns.
“Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horror of socialism?” Ms. Heng adds as a photo of skulls in a Khmer Rouge death camp is displayed.
“My father was minutes from death in Cambodia before a forced marriage saved his life,” Ms. Heng says. “That’s socialism: Forced obedience. Starvation.”
“Mine is a face of freedom — my skin is not white; I’m not outrageous, racist, nor socialist,” she adds. “I’m a Republican.”
Republicans have made a significant effort to recruit young candidates of color in recent years, and have stepped up such attempts in California since their 2018 losses. During the midterm elections, Republicans targeted some Democrats with ties to the Middle East by portraying them as terrorist sympathizers.
Ms. Heng appeared to take full credit for the advertisement Thursday night.
“Are you really calling me a racist,” she wrote on Twitter. “I’m calling all Democrats out for supporting an evil ideology.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-debate-ad.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
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