Biden ad features naturalization ceremony after knocks on Trump for using immigrants ‘as props’

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Joe Biden’s campaign defended including scenes of a naturalization ceremony in an ad after blasting President Trump for using immigrants as “political props” during the Republican National Convention.

Biden spokesman Andrew Bates ripped hypocrisy complaints, arguing that there was “an inherent difference” between the two-term vice president overlaying photos and footage of a 2009 swearing-in ceremony he attended in Iraq in the two-minute spot and Trump’s ceremony during this week’s confab.

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