A new ad from Republican Voters Against Trump, airing on Fox News in the battleground state of Arizona is calling out President Donald Trump’s failures on the coronavirus pandemic, using his won words agasint him.
Arizona has been hit especially hard, with more than 150,000 cases and almost 3,000 deaths.
The new ad shows how Trump has consistently underestimated the toll. It concludes with a damning quote from Trump himself: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
Trump made the comment in March when asked about his administration’s failure to deliver tests and other essential supplies early in the pandemic.
In 2016, Trump won Arizona by more than 3 percentage point, but polls this year show Joe Biden holding a slight but consistent edge. The current FiveThirtyEight average has Biden up by 2.7 percentage points in the state, which has 11 electoral votes.
Republican Voters Against Trump said the spot is in conjunction with its $10 million campaign. Many of the organization’s ads highlight the voices of rank-and-file GOP voters who have turned on the president. The group says it has more than 500 anti-Trump video testimonials from Republican voters.
Another anti-Trump GOP group, the Lincoln Project, is also out with a new video hitting the president’s indifference to the rising death toll, among other issues. The spot also uses the president’s own words against him.
Watch both ads below:
Here’s Lincoln Project’s video —spread the word:
It is what it is. pic.twitter.com/Y6s0iFodC9
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 23, 2020
