AIDES to top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has voiced outrage after a left-leaning group suggested he supported China over the United States due to his Taiwan-born wife.
McConnell, who faces re-election next year, is married to former labour secretary Elaine Chao. She was born in Taiwan to parents who fled mainland China and immigrated to the US as a child.
Progress Kentucky, a pressure group opposed to McConnell, posted a message on Twitter that noted that the Senate Republican leader was married to Chao and quipped: "May explain why your job moved to China!"
The group also linked to a press release in which China's Premier Wen Jiabao thanked Chao's father, businessman James Chao, for business deals that helped benefit the Asian economy's shipbuilding industry.
The comments were roundly condemned by Republicans and Democrats, and the group issued an apology on Tuesday, telling a local radio station its messages "included an inappropriate comment on the ethnicity" of Elaine Chao.
Jesse Benton, a spokesman for McConnell's re-election campaign, had earlier called Elaine Chao and her family "shining examples of the American Dream" who came to the US with little and built successful businesses.
"It is unconscionable that anyone would use blatant race-baiting for political gain," Benton said in a statement.
"Progress Kentucky should be ashamed of themselves. We hope all Americans can agree that these disgusting tactics have no place in American politics as we try to bring people together to solve our difficult problems," he said.
A spokesman for Progress Kentucky had earlier told WFPL, the Louisville radio station that first drew attention to the Twitter posts, that tweets should not be seen in the same way as official statements by the group.
But the group's executive director Shawn Reilly later issued a statement saying: "We apologise to the secretary for that unnecessary comment and have deleted the tweets in question."
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