North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis, a Republican, is in a way responsible for the 2012 shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin — or so says a new radio ad launched by a super PAC with connections to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
The ad is being aired in North Carolina thanks to funding by Senate Majority PAC, which is run by former Reid aides.
“Tillis won’t fight for us,” the commercial states, adding that Tillis, “made it harder for communities of color to vote.”
“Tillis even led the effort to pass the type of ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws that caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin,” the commercial states.
As the New Yorker’s Jay Caspian King notes, Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, which eliminated the “duty to retreat” in self-defense cases, was never invoked at the trial of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin.
The conservative activist group American Commitment has since pushed back on the the Senate Majority PAC ad, accusing Senator Reid this week of engaging in “race hustling.”
Tillis is running in a dead heat against Democratic incumbent, Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., the latter leading the former in the polls 44.4 to 43.2 percent, according to the RealClearPolitics‘ weighted average.
(H/T: sistertoldjah1)
