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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Pearce has begun airing a new television ad calling his primary opponent a liberal – a continuation of the attacks between the two candidates even as the ad also complains about his opponent’s negative attacks.
Heather Wilson is doing the same thing in her current TV ad – complaining about Pearce’s negative attacks and then attacking him.
Here’s Pearce’s new ad:
The first 25 seconds of the 30-second spot continue Pearce’s recent attack on the fact that Wilson missed 22 U.S. House votes recently because she was in New Mexico campaigning. This ad says she missed votes “just to film negative campaign ads.” In the background of the ad is someone calling out “Heather Wilson” and someone else responding with “absent” several times to emphasize the point.
The last five seconds sort of randomly insert the line, “Heather Wilson. Liberal values, liberal votes.” Then the ad ends with another exchange of “Heather Wilson,” “Absent.”
There’s nothing in the ad to back up the claim that Wilson is a liberal, unless Pearce is claiming that missing votes is a liberal value.
