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RNC Brags About ‘Willie Horton’ Attack That Was So Racist Its Creator Disavowed It

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The ad featuring a black murderer was used against Michael Dukakis in 1988 and the line of attack was so incendiary that Lee Atwater later regretted it. Now Republicans are using it as a model.

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