Bob Casey campaign won’t renew ad that drew criticism from widow of Jamal Khashoggi

Bob Casey’s Senate run successful Pennsylvania says it won’t renew an advertisement that drew a ailment from the widow of a U.S.-based writer who was killed wrong the Saudi consulate successful Istanbul successful 2018.

The run said successful a connection Friday that it sympathizes with the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, but didn't program to instantly propulsion the ad, which uses the representation of the writer to knock hostile Dave McCormick for ties to the Saudi government.

Campaign spokesperson Maddy McDaniel said that the ad, which the widow said was insensitive, would beryllium cycled retired adjacent week arsenic planned.

“There is nary quality that David McCormick demanded his hedge money amusement enactment and loyalty to Mr. Khashoggi’s murderers, each to support his ain concern interests,” spokesperson McDaniel said. “We person the utmost sympathy for what Mrs. Khashoggi has experienced.”

She said the run spoke with the widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, who says the advertisement is insensitive and incorrectly identifies her precocious hubby arsenic an American.

“The commercialized is simply a precise achy reminder of however my hubby died, and arsenic you tin imagine, I person been traumatized each time for the past 6 years,” Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said successful an email to Casey’s Senate bureau obtained by POLITICO. “I instrumentality nary presumption connected the authorities of your Senate race, but I americium dedicated to correcting misconceptions astir my precocious husband.”

Jamal Khashoggi, who had written columns captious of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for The Washington Post, was killed by officials of the authorities of Saudi Arabia wrong the consulate – an incidental that caused a superior breach successful relations betwixt the U.S. and its longtime ally.

U.S. quality officials aboriginal determined the sidesplitting had been authorized by Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler of the kingdom.

In the ad, the Casey run alleges that McCormick, a affluent Republican businessman, “demanded his hedge money enactment loyal to the murderers to support their investments” successful Saudi Arabia.

The widow objected to the characterization of her hubby arsenic an American, since helium was a Saudi national who lived successful the U.S., oregon immoderate notation of him astatine each and discussed the contented with the run on with her lawyer, Randa Fahmy – a donor and self-described “good friend” of McCormick.