With only a few weeks left in the campaign season and down in the polls, Wendy Davis is getting desperate: She’s made an attack ad about her opponent’s paralysis.
“A tree fell on Greg Abbott — he sued and got millions,” the new ad from he Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate begins, featuring an empty wheelchair for a full third of the airtime. Abbott, her Republican opponent who is currently the state’s attorney general, was paralyzed during a jog 30 years ago and has been in a wheelchair since.
Since then, the ad states that Abbott has ”spent his career working against other victims.”
The ad was panned across party lines:
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