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New Ad Features Trump’s Quotes about Women
A Republican super PAC released an ad Monday highlighting some of Donald Trump’s comments about women over the years. Produced by Our Principles PAC, the spot will air on national cable as “part of a 7-figure existing buy.”
https://youtu.be/OkSRJSUY0vs
In the video, women read quotes from Trump mocking the flat-chested, implying Megyn Kelly is menstruating, calling women “dogs,” and saying, “Women, you have to treat ‘em like [expletive].”
“This is how Donald Trump talks about our mothers, our sisters, our daughters,” the ad concludes. “If you believe America deserves better, vote against Donald Trump.”
(And if you think this ad is tough, wait until he gets to the general election.)
Our Principles PAC was founded by Katie Packer, a former deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney. Since coming out to oppose the GOP frontrunner, she has been deluged with death threats by Trump fans.
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I don’t see how it’s working. Trump has been pummeled by millions and millions of attack ads in the last few weeks, covering every part of his shady business background. His name calling and vulgar behavior have been part of those attacks as well, and they have been highlighted repeatedly at the debates and by his opponents elsewhere. His polls have not dropped one point. And despite your claims about these attacks holding him down, Trumps winning percentage continues to climb. He has approached 50% in a few states now, and his numbers in Florida and North Carolina, both swing states, are over 40%. This “low ceiling” keeps getting higher as the campaign wears on, not lower, even as the attacks and scrutiny grow.
I’m sorry, I see this analysis as wishful thinking.
Sure, Hillary can try to make some hay out of this. Trump can give the Clinton defense of “hey, it’s just sex”. And Trump has the balls to hit back with Bill’s escapades as well as the noting the pioneering work of Hillary/Carville/Stephanopolous in the realm of rape apology and slut shaming. Trump can say he never split any woman’s lip or used an intern as a cigar humidor.
At this point in 2012, Mitt Romney had won a clear majority (56%) of all delegates awarded. Trump is still dragging that by 14 points with a 44% plurality of delegates. If he loses Ohio tomorrow, he will have to win a whopping 60% of delegates in the remaining states to secure the nomination. That’s a tall order for someone who hasn’t cracked 50% yet in a race that will be consolidating on the anti-Trump side.
I don’t doubt Trump will arrive in Cleveland with the most delegates, but anything short of the majority lands him in an open convention, where experienced politicians have real advantages.
If the Republican Party disgraces itself by nominating Trump – either outright via the primaries or at an open convention – his eye-popping negatives will torpedo him in the general. Keep in mind, his best outcome is to run as the nominee of a badly divided party which represents only a third of the electorate when unified.
Seems like a failing of execution. First they bury the lead, they needed to start with the “Women, you got to treat them like–” line then go to the other quotes, while reiterating the main line each time in between.
The white background and pinch faced reading is boring. Use a professional female voice over, and interpose it over slow pans of his nastiest most unflattering pictures (take your pick.) Remind the viewer of the visceral unpleasantness of this gross misogynist. Also try it with some of the more grotesque pictures of him with multiple cheap looking women. See if you can find shots of him in one of his strip clubs, etc.
This isn’t hard, why can’t these people even do the right thing correctly?
Trump says many hurtful things, but when he mocks our martyred People’s Princess, he goes too far.
Yes. A Spinal Tap quote for almost every occasion.
What Trumps misogyny exposes is not a politically incorrect nature. It is all part and parcel of an arrested adolescence. We see evidence of it in his braggadocio, his bullying behaviors, and his reflexive lying. Trump never outgrew the locker room of his high school days. I could care less if he is a misogynist, certainly Clinton’s behaviors display a good deal of that tendency. What concerns me is that an immature person with minimal self awareness is being elevated to the place of nominee for the Presidency of the United States of America by the party of Abraham Lincoln. That, at a time, when men and women of far greater ability and accomplishment have offered themselves for the position and had their offers pushed aside like so many unworthy beggars. We started this political season with a wealth of candidates far more qualified than Trump, and in the end we seem to have come down to this embarrassment, this locker room bully with far more mouth than brain and no dignity fit for the office he seeks. It is truly a sad commentary.
1) I agree that Trump’s supporters don’t care- and that tells you all you need to know about Trump and his supporters. His problem is that 55% of the registered voters are female, and Trump already runs well behind with women. That alone may save Hillary.
2) Your definition of “establishment hack” is apparently anyone who is not a Trump supporter, or maybe a Cruz person?
That is not enough for those who simply don’t like crude slime who treat women like their personal toys. You don’t think that the “legal rape” described in headlines in Ivana’s divorce testimony will be neglected?
Trump is toast, even if the party is stoopid enough to sign on.
They have not been effective to date with the 35% of the Republican primary voters who are foisting this debacle on us and when also ignored by Legacy Media that devoutly wishes us to commit suicide this way.
They will affect differently in a general election context. Hillary will suddenly be the Chief Victim, a surrogate for all other women.
It is beginning to be more than 35% of GOP voters, unfortunately. We truly are the stupid party. The incredibly, mind-bogglingly, gouge-your-own-eyes-outingly stupid party.
the greatest thing since supercalifragilisticexpealidocious:
[John Wilson]
The incredibly, mind-bogglingly, gouge-your-own-eyes-outingly stupid party.