Oops! Ohio Cong Candidate Uses Footage of Moroccan Migrants to Warn of Mexican Border Crossers

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Oops! Ohio Congressional Candidate Uses Footage of Moroccan Migrants to Warn of Mexican Border Crossers

by Ken Meyer | 10:27 am, March 16th, 2018

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For a few months now, Ohio Republican congressional candidate Christina Hagan has been running an ad for her campaign about how she’ll drain the swamp, help President Donald Trump, and advocate for strong borders.

There’s just a slight problem: the clip she includes in her new campaign ad of illegal immigrants supposedly crossing the Mexican border…are actually crossing a completely different border.

A portion of the ad shows scores of people approaching a wall and supposedly invading America like no one’s business. However, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski spotted the irregularity:

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Politifact found that the footage originated from the Italian television network RepubblicaTV, and it shows a group of Moroccans pouring into Melilla, an autonomous Spanish-held enclave in North Africa. Interestingly enough, Trump used the exact same footage in one of his campaign ads, making no reference to the fact that it did not actually show Mexicans illegally pouring into the United States.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/oops-ohio-congressional-candidate-uses-footage-of-moroccan-migrants-to-warn-of-mexican-border-crossers/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. They both start with M and she probably presumes are all of the "darker complexion types". So

it's OK.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Anything to stir up FEAR of the other...cheapest, oldest most disgusting trick in the book.

And only Republicans do it without consequence or regard, even lying in your face...they really are deplorable.

[MiniMe]

2. Time to send her a check for "Hopes and Prayers"

Only costs a stamp. Make sure you explain why you are sending them i.e. the wrong footage.

[Thyla]

3. This is like my French FIL who suppots Trump

Because you know, Moroccans.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. There was a time the outrage here would be that source of video aside, anyone

running for office in our country could not do this and not be shamed and easily defeated.

The least educated immigrant illegally crossing the border right now is a BETTER human being than this woman.

[LisaM]

5. Does she have any chance?

She's dressed like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, FFS. (Which confirms fire that the way SHS dresses is a code for a subset of voters).

[TheBlackAdder]

7. When Trump sees this video, his only thought is, "I can give her a bigger pearl necklace!"