With more people home and watching TV?
Trump supporters are working to support THEIR guy….
I’ll be fair though….
A Biden Super -Pac has been doing the same thing since before the worst of the virus times we’re in right now…
The largest outside group supporting President Trump’s reelection is putting $10 million behind new digital, cable, broadcast and mail ads attacking former Vice President Joe Biden in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The America First Action PAC has not released the content of its ads, but detailed in a statement on Wednesday its plans to invest $5.5 million strategically in cities across Pennsylvania, along with $2.7 million in Wisconsin and $2 million in Michigan.
It marks the group’s first independent expenditures of the 2020 election cycle.
“It’s time to put Sleepy Joe Biden to bed,” said Brian Walsh, president of America First Action PAC. “This is our first round of spending, with much more to come. By the time November rolls around, voters in battleground states are going to know why Joe Biden is weak, wrong and been around for too long to lead the United States of America.”
Biden has yet to secure the Democratic nomination, but his delegate lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has become increasingly difficult to overcome.
The new spending comes as some Trump allies have been grumbling behind the scenes about being outspent in the super PAC wars.
Last month, the largest Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA, went up with $6 million in ads in the same three states attacking the president’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Trump campaign threatened to sue over the ad, saying that it made a false claim about Trump calling the coronavirus a “hoax.”….
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If anyone has HBO on Demand, there is a new series out called “The Plot Against America.” Three episodes have run so far, but I just saw the first one last night.
The premise is that Charles Lindbergh becomes the 1940 Republican nominee on an isolationist “America First” anti-war platform and then goes on to defeat FDR and brings fascism to America. The series is mostly about a Jewish family living in Newark and what happens to them. It very much feels like the scenes are authentically from 1940.
There are definitely some parallels intended to the rise of Trump, although the series is based off a novel that was written in 2004 where nobody really envisioned this happening to the Republican Party.
And of course the actual history is that the GOP did not go in that direction in the 1940s. It all is a bit pretty far fetched but will probably win a bunch of Emmys, etc.
Yeah I’ve been watching “The Plot Against America”. I’ve wanted to read the book for awhile.
The series is very good so far. And while the series definitely is influenced by Trump’s takeover of the GOP, it’s not like the party hasn’t been drifting in that direction for decades.
CG’s statement that when the book was written in 2004 “nobody really envisioned this happening to the Republican Party” sounds like whistling past the graveyard.
Rush Limbaugh and FOX News existed in 2004 and Pat Buchanan had run twice for the GOP nomination by then. The party has flirted with these types for years, they just always reeled them in at the last minute. In 2016 they stopped reeling and just went with it.
Besides for Buchanan, who was considered a fringe character before leaving the party, I don’t get it.
The image of the Republican Party was the complete opposite of isolationist. The criticism (mostly from the left) was that it was too internationalist and that the Bush Doctrine of wanting to spread democracy all over the world was misguided and that we needed to focus more on domestic needs and less on trying to build a “new world order.” Plus, the trade aspect.
The premise of the “Plot Against America” seems to be about scapegoating Jews, just as it happened during that time in Europe. Of course, the modern connection is to how Trump talks about Mexicans, etc. In 2004, one would hardly accuse George W. Bush of having an issue with Mexicans.
Pat Buchanan was “a fringe character”– who beat Bob Dole in the New Hampshire primary. OK.
My point is that the GOP has been flirting with extremists since the rise of Rush Limbaugh and FOX News. It was only a matter of time before they nominated someone like Trump.
I seriously doubt the author–Philip Roth–saw GW Bush as an inspiration for his Lindbergh alternate reality character when he wrote the book in 2004. But if you think that at the time the idea that a right winger grabbing hold of the Republican Party after years of El Rushbo, FOX, talk radio and the like was out of thin air, you just weren’t paying attention.