Momentum Shift Favors Ed Gillespie

A new TV ad sponsored by a group known as the Latino Victory Fund began running and immediately raised objections:

There are moments in a campaign when you can feel the momentum shift in the other guy’s direction. That seems to be happening in Virginia now.

With a week to go before Election Day, the shift could lead to Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie snatching victory from Democratic nominee Ralph Northam.

The source of the change is an ad — not from the Northam campaign but from an outside group, the Latino Victory Fund.

The 60 second spot, according to The Post’s Fenit Nirappil, is airing on Spanish-language stations in the D.C. and Richmond areas. In it, a white male in a pick-up truck displaying a confederate flag and an Ed Gillespie bumper sticker chases a group of minority children. It closes with video of the tiki-torch Nazis parading on the grounds of the University of Virginia.

The ad calls on voters to reject hate, a similar message to the cringe-inducing Northam mailer that also linked Gillespie to the Nazi marchers and, for added effect, a Make American Great Again-capped Donald Trump.

Read the rest of Norm Leahy’s column here.