A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump has rolled out an advertising campaign worth $11.5 million targeting the former president and current Republican nominee.
It’s the work of Republican Voters Against Trump, and the advertising was slated for Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nebraska.
“People are bored by Trump,” the anti-Trump group’s Sarah Longwell said Tuesday on “Morning Joe,” hearkening to her experience doing focus groups. “They’re bored with all of the drama. They’re tired of the insults. They’re tired of the lies about the election. They want to know, what is somebody going to do for them? They want to know how they’re going to handle the economy, handle inflation, and they’re interested in a new pitch. And that’s what Kamala Harris has for them.”
The advertising blitz includes a video ad apparently meant for television featuring remarks from everyday Americans speaking against Trump.
Harris, the Democratic nominee, is getting some promising results from polling, though she insists on not putting too much stock in the numbers, which regularly fluctuate.
But in the meantime, there is now new polling from CNN and SSRS that found a lead for the Democratic candidate in Georgia, which Joe Biden won in 2020 in the first such win for a Democratic nominee since the 1990s. Harris actually led in four battleground states in that polling, with margins for the Democrat ranging up to six percentage points in Wisconsin, which — like Georgia — moved from a Trump win in 2016 to a Biden victory the next time around.
Now, Harris and Trump are set for a televised debate hosted by ABC News taking place this month on the heels of an extensive back-and-forth over whether to leave the candidates’ microphones active when it’s not the particular nominee’s turn to speak. Harris and her team wanted that option, arguing for a less filtered look at the options for Americans.
