A.G. Gancarski
If you tuned into President Donald Trump‘s rallies Friday in the Villages and Pensacola, you likely remember Trump talking about fracking.
Though the issue isn’t always top of the list in Florida, where other environmental concerns such as sea level rise and potential offshore drilling crowd it out, fracking does resonate through other battlegrounds.
Democrat Joe Biden floundered when talking fracking during Thursday night’s debate with the President, and the Trump campaign doesn’t want to let voters forget.
“Biden said he is going to “transition out of (fracking) by 2025”. I hope Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and all of the rest were listening last night. High energy prices, massive jobs losses,” the President tweeted Friday.
To that end, a new stretch run ad buy, will debut in Pennsylvania, but likely head to a cable buy near you if this spot resonates at all.
The 30-second spot focuses on Jennifer, a White female fracking engineer, who describes both the “intense job” she does and the intense fear she has that Joe Biden will take that job away.
“Pennsylvania is a fossil fuel state. It will be devastating,” warns the oracular engineer. “The end of a lot of livelihoods.”
Biden, in the manner of many a Democratic General Election candidate, has had to reconcile the positions one takes to get through a crowded primary field with the positions palatable to low-information swing voters. Fracking isn’t the only issue on which he’s had that challenge. However, it’s one Trump World has bet on big league.
“While President Trump proposes pro-growth policies to deliver the Great American Comeback and maintain energy independence, Joe Biden would happily sacrifice millions of good, blue-collar jobs in the oil and gas industry to appease his radical base,” the campaign asserts in the media release accompanying the spot.
4 comments
James Robert Miles
October 24, 2020 at 9:41 am
Not that Trump’s NONSTOP lying about EVERYTHING while taking responsibility for NOTHING and murdering more than 210,000 American’s for a pandemic that he STILL HAS NP PLAN TO END, just like his nowhere plan for healthcare that would be better than Obamacare and his claim that the wall would be paid for by Mexico, freaks out voters!! Trump has a bigger pile of manure for voters tp ‘freak out’ about than Biden ever could! VOTE HIM OUT, LOCK HIM UP!! Get rid of the fascist wannabe dictator in 2020!!
S.B. ANTHONY
October 24, 2020 at 12:16 pm
“Pennsylvania is a fossil fuel state. It will be devastating,” warns the oracular engineer. “The end of a lot of livelihoods.”
This is a fear tactic and a lie. Oil and natural gas companies already are investing in green energy and will be the ones to end or transition jobs.
Coal is dead and, eventually fracking will be dead, regardless of which party is in power.
Livelihoods are governed by corporations, not politicians.
Americans want the truth, not hyperbole aimed to keep people in power.
Be informed and listen to FACTS, not garbage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/business/energy-environment/joe-biden-oil-debate-reaction.html
Sonja Fitch
October 24, 2020 at 5:29 pm
With a green plan jobs and retraining are the basis for implementing and development the green jobs! VoteBlue! Vote Democrat up and down ballot for the common good!
Frankie M.
October 24, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Nobody gives a shit about fn frackin except for PA voters maybe. No fn frackin on federal soil. Just cause Trump is ready to raffle off Native American lands along with Yellowstone doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. Give us a break AG.
The potus who cried oil is clutching at straws. Donnie is throwin everything at the wall to see what sticks. He even had Rudy implicate Biden in some quid pro quo hotel room sting operation Borat style. Rudy of course claimed it was Sleepy Joe reachin into his pants. (see what i did there??)
Desperation is a stinky cologne.
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