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![Wilson played a significant role in the 2002 United States Senate election in Georgia, in which Saxby Chambliss was facing Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran and recipient of the Silver Star. Wilson helped create an ad that attacked Cleland's voting record concerning the nascent Department of Homeland Security, flashing images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, with some observers suggesting that it questioned Cleland's patriotism.[7][8] In an interview with HuffPost, Wilson stated that he thought that "DHS was on the front line against Osama bin Laden".[9] As Wilson reflected in 2016, "The Cleland ad was powerful because it went to his strengths [...] Everyone assumed Cleland was immune to critiques on national security issues. [...] they didn't calculate that I have no moral center when it comes to political ads, and I will destroy the innocent and the guilty".[10] Following Cleland's death in 2021, Wilson received criticism from journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Charlie Pierce.[11][12]
In 2012, Wilson posted to Instagram an image of a cooler emblazoned with a Confederate battle flag and the words "The South Shall Rise Again", prompting allegations of racism.[13][14][15] After public backlash, Wilson eventually deleted the post. It resurfaced in 2020 while The Lincoln Project was airing television ads attacking the public display of that flag.[13][15][14] He had left the Republican Party following the 2016 United States presidential election, and in late 2019, co-founded The Lincoln Project, a Super PAC organized by then-current and former Republicans opposed to and working to prevent the re-election of Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election.[16]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7qyh4msxiv5aa74p7ncsbhx7/bafkreia62hybg2s7iye5j4vpdznl77k2vfgd5uv6hnhb63o2ngx7xdapt4)
