Vice President Joe Biden complained about “nasty, deceptive TV ads” run by super PACs could turn this campaign into “a lopsided fight” even as his super PAC is defending a video that blames Mitt Romney for a woman’s death.
“The people on the other side who are trying to buy this election are putting nasty, deceptive TV ads on the air right this very minute,” Biden wrote in a fundraising email last night that warned the ads would only start “getting worse” now that Romney has picked Paul Ryan as a running mate.
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Obama’s campaign still has not repudiated a video produced by their official super PAC that blames Mitt Romney for the death of a woman by cancer by alleging that she didn’t have insurance because her husband lost his job at a Bain-owned plant.
“Our Briana Keilar did a fact check of that ad and it’s full of falsehoods,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said before asking the Obama campaign to call it “repulsive” (the president’s spokeswoman said she “can’t speak” to the ad.)
Biden’s crocodile tears about “nasty” ads preceded a request for minimum donations of $5 or more — up from $3 in past messages — as the advent of Paul Ryan in the presidential campaign has caused Obama’s campaign to see the need or opportunity to request almost twice as much money as usual.
Here is the full message:
The people on the other side who are trying to buy this election are putting nasty, deceptive TV ads on the air right this very minute. They’re not going away. They’re getting worse.
If we don’t do what we can to keep this close, right now at this crucial moment, we risk letting the other side run away with it.
If you’re thinking about making a donation to the campaign, please don’t wait — donate $5 or more today, and let’s win this together.
Every single day from now until Election Day matters. At the end of it, we’ll all ask ourselves if we did everything we could to make sure that we are able to keep fighting for change.
I know how I want to answer that question. I hope you’re with me — because we’re up against the kind of outside spending never seen before in modern politics.
And without people like you, this could get to be a pretty lopsided fight.
November 6th will be here sooner than we think. Donate $5 or more today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Our-Team
Thanks,
Joe
