Jewish groups criticized the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia for running an advertisement referring to the Holocaust. The ad, run by Jerry Kilgore’s campaign, features a father whose son and daughter-in-law were killed recently saying that Kilgore’s Democratic opponent, Tim Kaine, doesn’t think Hitler “would qualify for the death penalty.”
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