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- Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff accused Republican Sen. David Perdue of using an anti-Semitic trope to attack him in a recently deleted Facebook ad showing Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose.
- Perdue's digital ad featured the altered image of Ossoff in which his nose is enlarged and elongated next to a picture of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish, and claimed "Democrats are trying to buy Georgia."
- The Perdue campaign took down the ad on Monday and claimed the nose enlargement was an "unintentional" biproduct of the photo-editing process conducted by a consultant.
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Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff accused Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia of using an anti-Semitic trope to attack him in a recently deleted Facebook ad showing Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose.
Perdue's ad, which began running on July 22, featured the altered image of Ossoff in which his nose is enlarged and elongated next to a picture of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish, according to the Jewish news outlet the Forward.
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