The Republican super PAC America Rising compares Hillary Clinton’s trustworthiness to former President Richard Nixon’s in a new ad targeted at Democrats ahead of the April 19 New York primary
As the ad, entitled “Clinton/Nixon,” switches back and forth between old footage of Nixon defending his honesty during the Watergate scandal and Clinton defending her private email server, both politicians utter many similar phrases such as “I want the facts out” versus “I want those emails out.”
“It’s eerie how similar they are — the compulsive references to trust, the emphatic denials — it’s as if Hillary studied the Nixon model while on the Watergate committee and then decided to replicate it,” Steven Law, president and CEO of American Crossroads said in a statement.
The ad will run in New York through next Tuesday’s primary. At present the former secretary of state leads Sen. Bernie Sanders 52.6-39.3, according to the statewide polling average. On the Republican side of the race Trump leads with 53.8 percent, followed by John Kasich at 21.9 and Ted Cruz at 17.9.
