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Did Rick Baker speak out about Charlotttesville? Democratic ad suggests he didn't. But Baker did say something

Entitled “Changed Man,” it portrays the Republican former mayor as a Trump lackey who lies about his opponent, Mayor Rick Kriseman.

Except the 30-second ad has some problems of its own.

The ad has Baker’s face share the screen with white supremacists and Nazis while criticizing Baker for remaining silent about Trump's comments about the violence in Charlottesville in August.

“Baker never took a stand,” the narrator says.

Baker never condemned Trump by name, but he did say "ever public official at every level" should condemn white supremacy in a statement about the violence, which was noted in the Tampa Bay Times.