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The Lincoln Project posts new ad, and it is both very timely and absolute FIRE
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Hardly, they aren't particularly relevant in politics. Trump's approval among Republicans has been consistently in the 90s. These #NotAll Republicans have an outsized voice in OP-ED pages and the DC suburbs wine and cheese parties but can't muster the courage to critique how this is the end result of their own ideology.
They are spending money to piss off trump and target the Embarrassed of Trump Republican Voters as a means of electing Biden. So for now they are useful tools especially with the lack of DNC funded ads at this point. If Republicans want to burn Trumps ass a bit then let them
I mostly agree with you. I think it will do well to embarrass those on the edge of agreeing with Trump, but nothing that takes from his base.
The ad is resonating a bit, "America or Trump" is a top topic on Twitter and Facebook this morning.
They've been really smart about ad spending. Rick WIlson mentioned on his podcast with Molly Jong Smith that they spent something like $365 TOTAL to run the ad on Fox News at the 11PM timeslot in one zipcode in America: the national mall in DC, an area super cheap to advertise in because nobody runs political ads in DC. It worked perfectly, Trump saw it on Tucker Carlson's program, and he flipped out and immediately started rage tweeting about it and the ad quickly got millions of views on YouTube and Twitter.
I agree, I think they're going to focus their advertising spending to run this in suburban areas and battleground states, not in the deep south.
This ad wouldn't resonate at all in white conservative places in the South or Mountain West, places that are proud of the confederacy and see voting for Trump as continuing this confederate legacy or whatever. Places, though, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio ... states that fought and died fighting against the confederacy and were abolitionist states, I think if they can influence 10,000-30,000 people in those states, it's enough of a swing that Trump loses those states.
They've been really smart about ad spending. Rick WIlson mentioned on his podcast with Molly Jong Smith that they spent something like $365 TOTAL to run the ad on Fox News at the 11PM timeslot in one zipcode in America: the national mall in DC, an area super cheap to advertise in because nobody runs political ads in DC. It worked perfectly, Trump saw it on Tucker Carlson's program, and he flipped out and immediately started rage tweeting about it and the ad quickly got millions of views on YouTube and Twitter.
I agree, I think they're going to focus their advertising spending to run this in suburban areas and battleground states, not in the deep south.
This ad wouldn't resonate at all in white conservative places in the South or Mountain West, places that are proud of the confederacy and see voting for Trump as continuing this confederate legacy or whatever. Places, though, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio ... states that fought and died fighting against the confederacy and were abolitionist states, I think if they can influence 10,000-30,000 people in those states, it's enough of a swing that Trump loses those states.
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They are helping remove Trump from office, so I would say the enemy of my enemy is my friend. After the election is another story. Hopefully Biden starts making ads that are this good, because the Lincoln Project ads are really effective.
These guys have a lot of classic political throat-slicing talent behind them. The problem with Biden doing it is it gives him a little of that Republican operative stink that turns off some moderates. For example one ad they just did goes after his mental health and feels juuuuust a bit slimy.
So we should enjoy this for now and be happy they'll take any heat as actual republicans. As you say, after the election it might be necessary to get dirtier, despite the risks.
The response time is incredible. Political ads have to be fast, but this consistency is mind blowing.
The voice over is appropriately harrowing. The word murder just grinds.
They are on top of it, when Trump talked about how joe would be weak on China, they hit him with the China as. When his Tulsa arena crowd was small, they hit him with that.
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