PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A local woman is fighting back after a political action committee used her words without consent for a campaign advertisement supporting former President Donald Trump.
In a press conference on Thursday, Kimberly Burrell, who says she’s voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election, read a letter to Trump asking him to tell his top donors to take the advertisement down. She told reporters the commercial doesn’t represent her true feelings.
“It is disgraceful to use my words at that moment to lie to voters,” Burrell said. “You’ve stolen my voice and taken a moment of vulnerability from me. And now because of you, I am forced to defend myself to friends, to neighbors asking me why I participate in this advertising.”
Restoration PAC is the group behind the advertisement. In it, is a video of Burrell talking about the struggle to feed families on minimum wage amid inflation, followed by a clip of Harris saying, “That’s Bidenomics.”
That clip …