Jacob Ogles
A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump’s reelection will target voters in one of Florida’s most reliably GOP markets with a blunt attack ad.
The controversial “Mourning In America” ad, produced by The Lincoln Project, lays blame for the COVID-19 pandemic at the President’s feet. The group announced Tuesday it was expanding its ad buy in four swing state cities, including Naples.
“The Lincoln Project video highlights the effects of President Trump’s failure as a President and how he’s left the nation weaker, sicker and teetering on the verge of a new Great Depression,” said Jennifer Horn, co-founder of The Lincoln Project.
“In a time of deep suffering and loss, Donald Trump continues with his failed leadership and his inability to put the country before himself.”
The ad, which will also target voters in Ohio and Wisconsin, paints a dark picture of the consequences of Trump’s presidency.
“Today, more than 60,000 Americans have died from the deadly virus Donald Trump ignored,” a narrator states over images of medical gurneys rolling away from homes.
The language contrasts the divisive record of the sitting President to Republican icon Ronald Reagan, whose reelection campaign in 1984 promoted a different “Morning in America” message. In a highly praised advertisement from that time, the incumbent Reagan was able to boast, “Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country’s history.”
But the new anti-Trump ad assails the Republican incumbent from a public health perspective while also laying responsibility on his shoulders for 26 million Americans being out of work as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“This afternoon, millions of Americans will apply for unemployment,” the narration continues. “And with their savings run out, many are giving up hope.”
It’s a blunt message, and one that has already grabbed Trump’s attention.
“A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, “Morning in America”, doing everything possible to get even for all of their many failures,” Trump tweeted after the ad release last week.
The never Trump Republican group will deliver the message to a region in Florida vitally important to Trump’s reelection efforts. Trump won Florida in 2016 by 112,911 votes, or 1.2% of the total vote. That came after netting 44,338 votes in Collier County and 66,643 in neighboring Lee County.
4 comments
Ray Blacklidge
May 12, 2020 at 12:11 pm
Go Democrats for Trump!
virginia roskelly
May 12, 2020 at 1:17 pm
Trump has done a huge diservice to this country. He worries more about his economy than the people who are dying daily. He is disgrace.
BlueHeron
May 12, 2020 at 9:46 pm
The only thing that Trump has done that is great is the twitter tirade he had after seeing this ad on one of his favorite prime time FOX programs. If memory serves, it was only aired in the DC area once.
During his nightly viewing, he went nuts and all of his tweeting brought this to the attention of people who probably never would have seen it.
The founders of the Lincoln Project are an impressive bunch of never Trump R’s. They think like Republicans and know how to get a message out that is powerful and goes for the jugular with nothing more than the truth. They triggered him. Bigly.
This ad is a MASTERCLASS in how to do it. The fact that it’s coming from R’s (or former R’s) makes it even more powerful.
The Dems need to stop singing kumbaya, get their sh**t together and take some lessons from these guys. We can go for the jugular too, can’t we? Lordy, I hope “we” can figure it out.
These guys will help get not only Biden elected, but our down ticket races in the Senate and House. This Dem has already donated and I am looking forward to seeing what comes next.
Nancy Hiatt
May 13, 2020 at 10:59 pm
I LOVE the Lincoln Project founders! All of you are true patriots who are fighting to get our country back. I want to be able to sleep again at night. I want to feel that we have a President who has the necessary skill sets to do the job and who is working hard to bring our country together…not trying to split us farther apart. I hate what our country has become under the Trump Administration. I truly yearn for kinder, more caring leaders. Thanks again, Lincoln Project! You are my heroes!!
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