The ads, as well as Thursday's launch of a new anti-Trump super PAC, appear to fly in the face of advice from some leading Democrats in the wake of a GOP surge in November’s statewide and legislative elections in Virginia and New Jersey. Democrats suggest that spotlighting the former President in this year's midterms is the wrong political strategy.
"Last time was just a test run," argues the narrator in a new spot by Priorities USA, the powerhouse Democratic outside group.
The narrator speaks over news clips of the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol by right-wing extremists and other supporters of then-President Trump who attempted to stop congressional certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over Trump.
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"Donald Trump is putting people in place now to dictate the outcome of the next presidential election in Congress and in states all around the country," the narrator declares, pointing to the former President’s endorsements of loyal candidates for the House and Senate and in key states across the country who are running in this year’s elections.
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"We stopped it once," the narrator emphasizes. And in an apparent move to energize Democratic voters ahead of this year’s midterms, when the party aims to defend its razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate, the narrator demands that "we need to show up, speak out, because every vote we take this November is a vote against Trump."
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In a separate ad, the narrator stressed that the former president is "organizing to take over Congress in 2022. The only way to stop Trump is with your vote."
Trump, who remains remarkably popular and influential among Republican voters and GOP politicians, has persisted to play a kingmaker’s role in party politics as he repeatedly flirts with another presidential run in 2024. The former President's repeated unfounded claims that the 2020 election was "rigged" and "stolen," motivated nearly 20 Republican-controlled states to pass laws last year tightening voting access rules.
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The new spots by Priorities USA – which the group says it’s initially spending six figures to run ads in key battleground states – come as a group of veteran Democratic operatives are launching a new anti-Trump super PAC named "Stop Him Now."
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