Conservative groups target their impeachment ‘Dirty 30’

Politico ^ | 12/15/19 | Anita Kumar

[Libloather]

Residents in 31 congressional districts are about to be inundated with millions of dollars’ worth of TV spots, Facebook ads, texts and tweets blaring that the “radical left” is trying to remove the president after a “witch hunt” - and that their Democratic representative is complicit.

Conservative organizations are blanketing those districts - which one group dubbed the “Dirty 30” - because each one voted for Trump in 2016, but later elected a Democrat in 2018. They’re convinced that impeachment has handed them a golden opportunity to flip those House seats in 2020, part of a long-shot bid to win back a Republican majority come November.

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“At least 31 House Democrats are hating their lives right now,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which bills itself as the nation's oldest conservative grassroots organization.

Trump himself even tweeted about the targeting effort on Saturday, and his son, Donald Trump Jr. encouraged his followers to go after the 31 members.

"Call non-stop, tweet at them, tell them this will NOT STAND & you’ll remember in Nov!" he tweeted.

[Starboard]

This ad campaign has the targeted Democrats and Democrat leadership terrified.

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Correct. They will have to expend a lot of money defending themselves against the GOP attacks instead of it being the other way around.

[yesthatjallen]

What has Virginia become?

The questions are why and how was this allowed to happen?

Were no Republicans monitoring what was going on in Virginia? If they didn't see what was happening why didn't they see it? And if they did see what was happening why didn't they raise any alarms?