During an interview with Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell referred to Davis opponent Greg Abbott’s paralysis as a “supposed disability.”
Davis was on MSNBC to respond to outrage over a campaign ad she ran criticizing Abbott for filing suit over the accident that paralyzed him while fighting to limit claims for victims in other cases. The ad featured an image of a wheelchair – Abbott is paralyzed from the waist down.
Mitchell asked if the candidate could have made her point “without this stark image of an empty wheelchair, which seemed to be trying to point people towards his own supposed disability.”
Davis didn’t seem to object to the wording, and said voters are furious about Abbott’s “hypocrisy” now that they’ve been educated by the ad.
An aging oak tree fell on Abbott when he was out jogging during a storm in 1984, breaking his back and confining him to a wheelchair.
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