Sanders Campaign Distances Itself From Its Own Campaign Ads

Bernie Sanders’s pledge not to run a negative campaign is running into the reality of his digital campaign, which produces ads with sharp contrasts between Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

In targeted digital ads, the Sanders campaign has regularly attacked Clinton for her Wall Street ties, claiming that Clinton is (in the case of one digital ad) “Bank Funded” and in another, asserting that Clinton “May Have Wall Street, But Bernie Sanders Has You.”

Both digital spots include lists of Clinton’s top financial-sector donors.
On Saturday, campaign spokesman Michael Briggs told the Washington Post that the “Bank Funded” spot — which was spotted by several regular readers of Politico and shared widely with reporters — was a mistake and that the ad had been taken down. Briggs said the ad ran because of “a miscommunication in our communications shop.”

“We haven’t been doing ads that mention Hillary Clinton,” Briggs told the paper.

But over the past few weeks, the Sanders campaign has run ads or ad-like posts with Clinton’s name with a similar message to the Politico ad.

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