A.G. Gancarski
The general election campaign is upon us, and the latest evidence is an ad from President Donald Trump released Friday.
The 30-second spot, entitled “Just Getting Started,” contrasts “old liberal ideas” from presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with the Trump agenda.
“Joe Biden would crush our economy just as it’s recovering,” asserts a gruff male voiceover over a driving synthesized soundtrack, asserting that Biden would hike taxes and “send our jobs to China.”
The President, in contrast, “did it his way, not the Washington Way, and he’s doing it again … renewing, restoring, rebuilding.”
“Joe Biden oversaw the slowest economic recovery since World War II and continues to champion policies that would crush American workers,” said Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for the President’s reelection push.
“President Trump built the American economy to unprecedented levels before it was artificially interrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, and under his bold leadership, we are already seeing the positive impacts of the Great American Comeback.”
While the Trump campaign has been on television for months, this ad is the first launch since a trio of Biden spots Thursday.
Biden’s campaign will spend $15 million to air 60-second spots in six states, with Florida being one of those battlegrounds carried by President Donald Trump in 2016.
The ads, three in total, will also run in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, and Arizona. No data has been provided about precise spend in each state yet.
They feature Biden “in his own voice … a voice of clarity and moral authority that America desperately needs.”
The general election landscape is emerging just as the Democrat is beginning to match the President’s prodigious fundraising thus far in the reelection campaign. At this writing, the Trump campaign is not disclosing the amount of money being spent on its ad buy, nor the location of where it will run.
But we can assume Trump and Biden will play heavily in Florida, one of a handful of states in play in November. Both have resources to play with.
The challenger’s fundraising lagged during much of the primary season, but the money has found him since he became a consensus choice, with over $80 million raised in May.
While the President still has the cash on hand advantage, messaging won’t be a problem. And this initial push of ads reveals part of a Florida strategy for Biden, up seven points here in the most recently released poll.
3 comments
Dan Lanske
June 19, 2020 at 10:09 pm
Trump 2020
kenneth
June 19, 2020 at 10:45 pm
How do you like Democrat Socialism? just like the third world isn’t it. Democrat Governor’s & Mayors philosophy? Police ordered to stand down while the city is looted and burned to the ground.
What do these Mayors & Governors have in common?………
Wolf (Gov PA) Kenney (Mayor Philadelphia) Pritzker (Gov Il), Lori Lightfoot (Mayor Chicago) Gavin Newsom (Gov CA) Kate Brown (Gov OR) Ted Wheeler (Mayor Portland OR) Jay Inslee (Gov WA) Jenny Durkan (Mayor Seattle) Cuomo, Di Blasio (Gov & Mayor NY) Walz (Gov MN) Frey (Mayor MN) Lyda Krewson (Mayor St. Louis) Gretchen Whitmer (Gov MI & Mike Duggan Mayor Detroit) (Bottoms mayor Atlanta GA)
All are Democrats who kept the economy in their states and cities closed as long as they could (many still are) and ordered Police in their cities to stand down.
There is no moderate wing of the Democrat party people and they really don’t care about taxpayers except for their vote.. If you vote for Joe Biden, you are voting for Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren’s far left platform.. Joe will follow the radical left’s agenda or Joe won’t get the support (and he is)…of Val Demings, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Valerie Jarrett,. Rashida Talib, Stacy Abrams, Ayanna Pressley, Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson Lee, Tom Perez, Maxine Waters, Al Green, and llhan Omar.
This is the core of the socialists leftist wing of the Democrat party in Washington and they are firmly in charge.
Democrat Platform & Goals:
Democrats want to make this election all about President Trump. NOT their platform & Goals.
*End all deportations of illegal aliens, if you get here, you stay. Bernie’s website calls it a “moratorium” on deportations.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Citizenship for 20 to 50 million illegal aliens, DACA & TPS recipients with a cost of billions.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Massive tax increases. All Democrat candidates have committed to tax increases of various amounts.
Democrats Yes tax increases.
Republicans No tax increases.
*De-fund & terminate border patrol & ICE.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Free Health Care for Illegal aliens, DACA, TPS recipients (taxpayer funded with one estimate at 52 trillion)
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Ending of all private / employer based health care. “Medicare for all”, Feds run everything.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Illegal Aliens eligible for welfare & food stamps. (Elizabeth Warrens plan adopted)
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No
*Reparations for race’s harmed by Caucasians. Joe Biden committed to “Reverend” Al Sharpton’s, support for Sheila Jackson Lee’s racist reparations bill in the House. Basically a tax will be levied on all Caucasians in America. (you can’t make this stuff up)
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Sanctuary Cities & States. Joe Biden supports sanctuary city’s.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Free college for all, including illegal aliens (taxpayer funded estimates in the billions. Bernie Sanders plan adopted.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Decriminalization of illegal entry into our country.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
*Open Borders.
Democrats Yes.
Republicans No.
Ocean Joe
June 20, 2020 at 8:03 am
I like the Trump ad showing the closed and collapsing Packard factory. The factory closed in 1956 during a Republican administration. Hoover: depression. W: recession. Trump:recession. There seems to be a pattern here.
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