Scott Powers
Priorities USA is launching a series of digital and television campaign advertising Tuesday that slams President Donald Trump for his response on the COVID-19 crisis, stringing together dismissive quotes from the President’s early statements.
“No, I don’t take responsibility at all,” the video clip shows Trump stating as a fever line tracking American cases soars upward from teens to tens of thousands, heading upward from there on a skyrocketing curve.
“America needs a leader we can trust,” text on the screen declares at the conclusion of the 30-second television commercial, “Exponential Threat.”
That’s one of two TV ads the Democratic-allied committee is releasing through social media Monday in Florida and fellow swing states Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and is part of a $6 million TV and digital buy. Priorities USA said it’s considering expanding the campaign to other states as well.
The second TV ad, “Better Prepared,” gives a glowing feel to expectations that Democratic rival former Vice President Joe Biden would provide leadership America could trust.
Trump victory spokeswoman Emma Vaughn replied by saying that while Trump is saving American lives Democrats are playing politics.
“President Trump has taken bold and decisive action that has undoubtedly saved American lives while Democrats in D.C. are playing political games holding up legislation that would help millions during these trying times. Democrats should put politics aside and come together for the sake of our country,” Vaughn stated in a news release.
Additionally, Priorities USA is releasing two digital ads that will begin running on Tuesday across a variety of online platforms like Facebook and streaming TV.
These ads — “Map” and “Steady Leadership” — feature similar themes as their longer TV counterparts, contending that Trump refused to adequately prepare the country for the coming crisis and that Biden would provide a significant departure from the chaos.
Since last week, Priorities has also been promoting news content to voters in critical battleground states painting Trump’s coronavirus efforts as a failure to respond effectively to the mounting crisis.
“From the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, Donald Trump has repeatedly misled the American people and exposed us to unnecessary danger. His failure to lead continues to have real life and death consequences as hospitals, local and state governments, small businesses, and millions of Americans are left without the tools and information they need,” Priorities USA Chairman Guy Cecil wrote in a news release. “Tens of thousands of people are sick, hundreds have already died, and millions are losing their jobs. We simply cannot allow Donald Trump to continue to lie and spread misinformation unchecked. The American people deserve the truth about their president.”
12 comments
Pedro
March 24, 2020 at 8:25 am
Trump is a self proclaimed genius who knows how to run businesses to the ground and it is what he is doing to the US now. That is why we should rename COVID-19 to MAGAvirus-45.
Luella E Frank
March 24, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Pedro, you are absolutely right! I love that name!
Diana
March 26, 2020 at 9:05 am
How about using the millions of dollars to help the businesses and people instead of wasting it on ridiculous ads that do nothing but attack and blame. This is a time to pull together not continue immature actions.
Lisa Mitchell
April 6, 2020 at 7:22 am
I find your advertisements full of crap.Your like the pardicin news media that takes clips of what President Trump says and puts it out there. These are not full statements. I find it pretty sad how the media’s lack real professional reporter’s these days. They only know how to report their own Democratic far left libral opinions. The media has become the new revolution for the Librals. Congratulations!
Nanci Allen
March 25, 2020 at 7:56 am
Anyone can make things look bad by using pieces of a statement. I saw the commercials you are running about Covid-19 and they are just like CNN, Fake News.
Anne McNamara
March 25, 2020 at 10:07 am
SHAME ON YOU. These ads do nothing to help the American people. Democrats took too long to vote the stimulus package. We need unity not politics
John Fitzgerald
March 26, 2020 at 6:59 am
The Democrats got their first bill passed on May 18th, a week ago. It was introduced two weeks ago and signed by the President on the 18th.
H.R. 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Eric Levin
March 26, 2020 at 11:04 am
Good Idea, perhaps you should not blame Democrats the sentence before you call for unity. It makes you look kind of, well, disunified.
Valerie May
March 25, 2020 at 12:30 pm
I would hope that the voting public has enough common sense to check out this misrepresentation of the comments made by Pres.Trump! I listen to the news conferences, not the clips and reports from bias “reporters”. I have enough confidence in my own intelligence and the ability to think for myself to draw my own conclusions from what I hear with my own ears. It’s a shame that people (general public and politicians alike) are no longer capable or willing to do the same.
Andrew Lison
March 25, 2020 at 5:33 pm
I hope you all burn in Hell
Nancy Cronk
March 27, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Anyone is better than Trump, but I’d rather have Cuomo over Biden. Biden looks listless in this ad. He needs to look like a fighter. Kamala Harris would kick some ars as his VP.
Lynn
March 27, 2020 at 4:56 pm
Shame on you for running this kind of ad during this crisis!! There is a time and place for everything and America doesn’t need this right now!!
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