Trump Group Runs Border Wall Ads Targeting Fellow Republicans

[applegrove]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-group-runs-border-wall-ads-targeting-fellow-republicans?via=twitter_page

By Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein at the Daily Beast

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A group affiliated with President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has taken the highly aggressive step of launching a digital ad campaign targeting fellow Republicans over funding for a wall along the nation’s southern border.

The ads, run through Trump’s official Facebook page, are sponsored by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising account for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. The group’s mailing address is the same as the RNC’s Washington headquarters.

“I want to be able to show all Republican Senators a list of the many American voters that will NOT be happy if the wall isn’t built,” the ads read. “I need YOUR NAME on the list. Sign our Official Petition to the Senate now!”

It’s rare for a party leader to spend money on advertising targeting members of his or her own party. Trump and the RNC’s willingness to do so underscores the degree to which the president has assumed a political status detached from the party’s and personalized the issue of the wall. Dan Pfeiffer, a former top official in the Obama administration, said he could not imagine that they ever did the same to Democrats during President Obama’s eight years in office. Obama’s campaign arm, Organizing for Action, did target conservative Democrats for voting against gun control legislation though paid advertising does not appear to have been a component.


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[akraven]

1. He is certifiable. n/t

[applegrove]

2. He won the nomination because republicans were afraid of alienating

his base. It is what he holds over them. He's now says: here...let me hold this over you some more. Give me the support the turn you into pretzels. Could not happen to a nicer bunch. But for now innocents pay the price.

[akraven]

4. his "base", combined

has the collective intelligence of a salamander.

[Cha]

3. Fuck Off trump.. Adam Schiff on trump's WALL..

Link to tweet

[Initech]

5. Russian Group Runs Border Wall Ads Targeting Fellow Republicans

Fixed it for ya!

[applegrove]

6. Right you are.

[tanyev]

7. Republican cage fight! The one thing of the Trump presidency I have been eagerly anticipating.