Gore stumps for Murphy as Guadagno speaks to gun group
By KATHERINE LANDERGAN 10/15/2017 08:50 PM EDT
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — As former vice president Al Gore stumped with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy on Sunday, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno continued her push to the right, speaking privately to a gun group about the dangers of undocumented immigrants and threats to gun ownership.
Sunday's campaign events followed a dramatic week during which Guadagno, a Republican, assailed Murphy over his stance on immigration, airing a television ad that accused Murphy of having “the backs of deranged murderers" because he supports turning New Jersey into a sanctuary state to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Guadagno refuted accusations that the ad is racist, saying that “somehow, today, the fact that I have said I want to protect the people of New Jersey against anyone who would commit a violent crime against anyone in New Jersey — I somehow have become a racist?”
The ad cites the murder of three people in a Newark schoolyard in 2007, noting that one of the convicted killers was an undocumented immigrant. It triggered an outcry from Murphy supporters, with former vice president Joe Biden calling it a “return of Willie Horton,” referencing an infamous attack ad run against Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in 1988.
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