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Obama Demands TV Stations Halt Anti-Biden Ad; Features ‘Plantation Politics’ Comment

Eric Quintanar
Obama Demands TV Stations Halt Anti-Biden Ad; Features ‘Plantation Politics’ Comment
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The communications director to former President Barack Obama has called on South Carolina TV stations to stop The Committee To Defend The President, a pro-Trump super pac, from airing an ad that Obama fears will confuse voters into thinking he has denounced his own former vice president, Joe Biden. 

According to an op-ed published in The Washington Post, Katie Hill, spokesperson for the president, wants TV stations to know that the ad has been designed to “suppress turnout among minority voters in South Carolina” and mislead voters. 

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