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LISTEN: This US presidential candidate is targeting black voters - with a rap
“Sometimes your policies just hypnotise me…”
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US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Ben Carson’s campaign just released something rare for Republican primary politics: a rap-themed radio ad.
ABC News got an early look at the 60-second ad, which it reported will air Friday and target young black voters in urban radio markets.
“Ben Carson, twenty-sixteen. Vote and support Ben Carson. For our next president to be awesome,” a rapper, identified as “Aspiring Mogul,” says in the ad.
The middle of the ad contains a highlight reel of some of the retired neurosurgeon’s uplifting speech lines.
Then the rap returns toward the ad’s end:
If we’re going to get America back on track, we got to vote Ben Carson, as a matter of fact.
Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts told ABC that the commercial is trying to reach ”a non-traditional voting market for Republicans.”
Listen for yourself:
https://soundcloud.com/abcpolitics/ben-carson-radio-ad
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