Northeast PA is the symbolic capital of Obama-to-Trump, blue collar voters.
Now a group of never-Trump Republicans is hoping to sway those voters with a new ad campaign criticizing the president’s response on COVID-19.
The Lincoln Project, a GOP anti-Trump political action group, released a minute long spot calling President Donald Trump a “fool, a liar, and a failure,” and dubbed the coronavirus, “Trump’s virus.”
The ad, “Memories,” begins by mentioning a series of events that would not be able to take place due to restrictions in place to combat the virus, followed by pinning the blame on Trump.
“COVID has robbed America of so much. None of this had to happen,” says the voiceover. “We have suffered needlessly because Trump is a fool, a liar, and a failure. Most countries stopped it.”
The Trump campaign described the ad as an attack from “the swamp,” and touted the president’s high approval rating within the Republican Party.
“This is the swamp – yet again – trying to take down the duly elected President of the United States,” said Trump campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine in a statement to PoliticsPA. “President Trump is the leader of a united Republican Party where he has earned 94% of Republican votes during the primaries – something any former president of any party could only dream of.”
A spokesperson from the Lincoln Project told PoliticsPA that that ad is a 7-10 day long targeted buy running on broadcast and cable in the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre market.
A number of groups opposing the president have run ads in Pennsylvania criticizing Trump’s response on COVID-19 for the past few months.
A Franklin & Marshall College poll of Pennsylvania likely voters in late July showed that Trump received poor grades on his job handling the outbreak. 29% said that Trump has done an “excellent” or “very good job” handling coronavirus outbreak, while 57% said that he deserves either a “failing” or “below average” grade on the matter, and 14% said that the president has been “average” on his response to COVID-19.
Trump’s best marks on the six specific topics asked to voters from the recent F&M poll was the economy with 45% that said Trump has done either an “excellent” or “very good” job helping to create new jobs, while 36% said that the president deserves either a “failing” or “below average” grade on the matter, and 17% said that the president has been “average” on the issue.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by 9 points, 50-to-41, in that same F&M poll.
The Real Clear Politics average shows Biden besting Trump by 6 points in Pennsylvania.
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I’m making my own pro-MAGA Trump campaign commercial and will be having a viewing party soon with my main man Doug “big pecker” Mastriomorono
Stop stealing my name and posting fake crap. You lying fraud POS
Yeah, you lying fraud POS. Stop stealing my fake alias. Noone can have my fake alias.
Politics PA has allowed its brand to become a joke and symbol of dirty politics.
Nobody outside of DC cares about The Lincoln Project.
Half of the COVID-related deaths in the US have occurred in nursing homes.
But let the Dems run on “Trump killed 150,000” hysteria. See how far that gets them.
Is your point “who gives a shit about people in nursing homes?” If so, then I’m 100 percentaru with you.
What a crappy add filled with non cents about a hoax.
150,000 lost to covid19. Trump bungled the response. Voters will respond in November with 1932 like repudiation of Republican Party. Fitzpatrick is going to be swept out of office in Biden wave. Cartwright wins. This is a referendum on Trump bungling covid response.
This year will be a Trump wave because Biden killed 150,000 people and he’s a bumbling fool. Fitzpatrick is a saint who will be reelected by a wide margin in Trump wave. Cartwright will get crushed. This is a referendum on Biden bungling craziness.