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Republican Group Running Anti-Trump Ads Finds Little Is Working
NYT via Yahoo news ^ | 9/29/23 | Jonathan Swan

Posted on 09/29/2023 1:55:28 PM PDT by CFW

A well-funded group of anti-Trump conservatives has sent its donors a remarkably candid memo that reveals how resilient former President Donald Trump has been against millions of dollars of negative ads the group deployed against him in two early-voting states.

The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential fiscally conservative group Club for Growth. It has already spent more than $4 million trying to lower Trump’s support among Republican voters in Iowa and nearly $2 million more trying to damage him in South Carolina.

But in the memo — dated Thursday and obtained by The New York Times — the head of Win It Back PAC, David McIntosh, acknowledges to donors that after extensive testing of more than 40 anti-Trump television ads, “all attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective.”

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“Every traditional postproduction ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability,” McIntosh adds. “This includes ads that primarily feature video of him saying liberal or stupid comments from his own mouth.”

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“Broadly acceptable messages against President Trump with Republican primary voters that do not produce a meaningful backlash include sharing concerns about his ability to beat President Biden, expressions of Trump fatigue due to the distractions he creates and the polarization of the country, as well as his pattern of attacking conservative leaders for self-interested reasons,” McIntosh writes in the memo.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrumperads; assistantdemocrats; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; election; gope; losers; rinos; surrender
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The disdain for conservatives just drips from this article!

NYT's readers hardest hit!

1 posted on 09/29/2023 1:55:28 PM PDT by CFW
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Can we stop having these groups hijack the term “Conservatives”. Crony Capitalism is not a Conservative value.


2 posted on 09/29/2023 2:04:23 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Biden Regime delenda est)
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To: MNJohnnie

Exactly.


3 posted on 09/29/2023 2:05:12 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Crony Capitalism is not a Conservative value.

A comment that shouldbeshoutedfromtherooftops!

MNJohnnie said - "Crony Capitalism is not a Conservative value."


4 posted on 09/29/2023 2:11:43 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: CFW

Anti-Trump conservatives still pissing into the wind and soaked can’t figures what’s wrong.


5 posted on 09/29/2023 2:19:28 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: CFW

There is literally NOTHING, other than (maybe) he Epstein Solution, that will affect us Trump supporters. So sorry Zelensky Fans, you guys CANNOT get between us and Trump.


6 posted on 09/29/2023 2:22:01 PM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: MNJohnnie

They are NOT conservative in anyway

Their agenda

Cheap labor (so unlimited Illegals allowed in)...

Cheap imports (so unlimited export of jobs to foreign sweat shops and then unlimited Unfettered, bring it access back into the American market with all their cheap c***)

And endless foreign wars

None of this is in our country’s intrests

They wish to treat our Country as if it was a ....foreign colony.. that they’re trying to exploit as much money out of.

Really no different they how England treated the Americas before the revolutionary war.

They may physically live here, but the reality is they live as far as way as The English Crown was from the America’s across the Ocean and just as Dismiss of the people


7 posted on 09/29/2023 2:30:34 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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This isn’t a “Republican group”. These are RAT infiltrators who infiltrated the GOP. The Bill Barrs and the John Bolton types.


8 posted on 09/29/2023 2:42:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (And the invasion of America continues while the RAT Party worries about the Ukraine.)
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Trump ACTUALLY fought.. while he may be imperfect, he fought.. and continues to fight while being attacked non stop in ways no other person has ever been..

The attempts by these folks to try to attack him as somehow not deserving of support are never going to be successful

Everyone knows the establishment/uniparty/globalist republicans aren’t going to fight for anything other than whatever their money men tell them to.


9 posted on 09/29/2023 2:53:18 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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They don’t have an alternative. They have had seven years to develop an alternative, but they are not interested.

They have been urinating on the tea party since 2010.


10 posted on 09/29/2023 2:55:19 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They are Deep State.


11 posted on 09/29/2023 2:59:02 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: CFW

‘Club for Growth’ may as well be the ‘Club of Rome’.

-fJRoberts-


12 posted on 09/29/2023 3:00:48 PM PDT by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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Bkmk


13 posted on 09/29/2023 3:06:22 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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Just a word for anyone....Rat or RINO...who's trying to convince me that DJT is evil: Donald J Trump is at least tied for the title of best President of my lifetime (Truman having been my first President). And he might have even been a little better than Ronald Reagan.

End of discussion.

14 posted on 09/29/2023 3:09:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: CFW

Same goes for campaigns on this site.


15 posted on 09/29/2023 3:49:39 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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When the hurricane can’t bring down the house, did these guys really think their electric fans would make a difference.


16 posted on 09/29/2023 4:00:55 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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Assistant Democrats hate Donald Trump.


17 posted on 09/29/2023 4:00:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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my fav was the anti-trump ad they made that was narrated by liz cheney ... these morons were stunned that trump’s poll numbers AND approval numbers went up with the test audience ... hey, stupid is as stupid does ..


18 posted on 09/29/2023 4:05:12 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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Anti-Trump conservatives still pissing into the wind and soaked can’t figures what’s wrong.

At least you're willing to admit we're actual conservatives. Chances are, to the right of you.

19 posted on 09/29/2023 4:08:31 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Jesus 2024)
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“Crony Capitalism is not a Conservative value.”

Like government subsidies and handouts to wealthy real estate developers?


20 posted on 09/29/2023 4:09:14 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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