'Shameful': Sen. Kay Hagan invokes Trayvon Martin shooting in campaign spot [audio]

Brett T. | 7:24 PM on October 25, 2014

Those of us living outside of North Carolina have likely missed it, but residents of the state have been marveling for nearly a week now at a Sen. Kay Hagan campaign radio spot that attempts to tie Hagan’s GOP opponent, Thom Tillis, to the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida.

Friend of Twitchy Sister Toldjah captured and posted a broadcast of the radio spot.

American Commitment president Phil Kerpen makes the point that has been lost on so many who followed the George Zimmerman trial.

Digusting Reid/Hagan ad blaming Thom Tillis for Trayvon Martin gets most basic fact wrong. Zimmerman did not assert SYG defense.

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 25, 2014

Did Reid Super PAC ask @TomSteyer and @MikeBloomberg before using their money for disgusting race-baiting ads???

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 25, 2014

Dems know their race-baiting attacks are likely to provoke backlash. But they are desperate. Nothing else is working to juice turnout.

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 25, 2014

Race-baiting is just what Southern Democrats do. Always has been and always will be. Targets change but tactics don't. Shameful.

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 25, 2014

Don't care what your polls or statistical models say, when Dems are down to "Tillis killed Trayvon!," Hagan is losing.

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) October 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/josh_snapper/status/525411508080353280

https://twitter.com/chrisedwards72/status/524622068684705792

I heard one of those Tom Tillis commercials today and it basically said it was his fault that Trayvon Martin was killed. Politics are bs.

— John ? (@JohnMiringu) October 22, 2014