Leading Democrat super PAC is launching a $6M ad campaign that slams Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis by quoting back all the things he said to underplay it
- Priorities USA launches $6 million attack campaign slamming Donald Trump
- Series of ads criticizes president’s response to the coronavirus outbreak in US
- One ad charts the increasing US cases as Trump downplays its significance
- He accused media and Democrats of overhyping the crisis before changing tone
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The largest Democratic super PAC is launching a $6 million campaign slamming President Trump over his response to the coronavirus.
Priorities USA launched a series of attack ads as part of a campaign showing how Trump for weeks downplayed the threat posed by the outbreak, even as the number of confirmed cases in the US kept increasing.
The three ads will run in four battleground states of Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
One TV commercial titled ‘Exponential Threat’, features a chart showing the rate virus cases rose in the US accompanied by clips of Trump downplaying the outbreak.
President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing yesterday. He has been criticized for downplaying the virus when it first arrived in the US
One TV commercial titled ‘Exponential Threat’, features a chart showing the rate coronavirus cases rose in the US accompanied by clips of Trump downplaying the outbreak
In the audio, Trump is heard saying the disease was ‘their [Democrats] new hoax’ and that ‘we have it totally under control’.
As Biden pledging to ‘always tell the truth’, the clip is captioned ‘America needs a leader we can trust’.
The campaign is part of a larger plan by Priorities to spend $150 million attacking Trump ahead of the Democratic National Convention in July.
Another 30-second TV ad, ‘Better Prepared’ shows stock market trading floors and the economic impact of the virus, followed by Trump telling the media ‘I don’t take responsibility at all’ for the deepening crisis.
Two digital ads will also run on Facebook and other social media platforms tomorrow that portray Trump as squandering opportunities to combat the public health crisis.
One campaign ad called ‘Map’, shows coroanvirus cases spreading across the US as Trump again says he does not ‘take responsibility at all’
One ad called ‘Map’, shows virus cases spreading across the US as Trump again says he does not ‘take responsibility at all’.
A second television ad titled ‘Steady Leadership’, casts former Vice President Joe Biden, as better-equipped than Trump to handle a crisis like the pandemic.
The ad brands the frontrunner in the Democratic primary race as having ‘presidential leadership’ as opposed to a White House in ‘chaos’ under the stewardship of Trump.
Trump downplayed the threat posed by coronavirus for weeks, accusing Democrats and the media of over-hyping the danger of the disease.
Democratic presidential hopeful former US vice president Joe Biden at a CNN debate earlier this month. His party has launched a campaign attacking Trump leading up to the DNC in July
He has changed his tone in recent weeks as the virus continued to spread, casting himself as a ‘wartime president’ capable of leading the country through a crisis.
Guy Cecil, chairman of Priorities USA, said in a statement: ‘From the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, Donald Trump has repeatedly misled the American people and exposed us to unnecessary danger.
‘His failure to lead continues to have real life and death consequences as hospitals, local and state governments, small businesses, and millions of Americans are left without the tools and information they need.’
As of today there have been more than 39,000 cases of the virus in the US with more than 400 people have died.