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Lincoln Project targets Senate races in Alaska, Maine, Montana with $4M ad buy
The Hill ^ | July 29 | BY JULIA MANCHESTER

Posted on 07/29/2020 10:44:19 AM PDT by RandFan

The Lincoln Project, a GOP anti-Trump group, on Wednesday launched a $4 million ad buy targeting Senate contests in Maine, Alaska and Montana.

The buy, which was first reported by Axios, will air for seven to 10 days in key markets in the three states.

The ads in Alaska and Maine express support for challengers to Republican incumbent Sens. Steve Daines (Mont.) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska). The spots are dubbed "Real" in Alaska and "Strong" in Montana. The group endorsed Democrat Al Gross in its ad in Alaska ahead of the state's Democratic and independent primary on Aug. 18.

Meanwhile, in Maine, the group is airing an ad titled "Trump Stooge," which targets incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

"We’re moving into the active phase of the fall campaign as voters, stuck at home because of COVID-19, tune in earlier than ever," the group's communications director Keith Edwards told Axios.

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign committee hit the group over the ads in a statement on Wednesday, taking aim specifically at Collins's opponent, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D).

“This Democrat scam PAC is run by ethically challenged and shady grifters who are backed by liberal billionaires. Like the candidate they seek to help, Democrat Sara Gideon, this PAC has struggled with rampant hypocrisy, unethical behavior, and ties to foreign governments," said NRSC spokesman Nathan Brand.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: 2020electionbias; axiossux; axiosux; billiondollarmarxist; davidgeffen; dnctalkingpoints; globalists; gop; lincolnproject; nevertrumpers; pravdamedia; senate; thelincolnproject
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To: RandFan

David Geffen and other have given to this fake “Republican” group. Not even RINOs. Democrat loyalists lying to Republican voters.


21 posted on 07/29/2020 11:12:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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Mitch McConnell should be speaking out trying to keep the Senate.


22 posted on 07/29/2020 11:13:22 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: RandFan

If they’re targeting Collins, then they’re not even RINOs. Collins is a RINO’s RINO. The Lincoln Project is a demoncrap front group, with a phony RINO veneer. They get away with this because fake news guards their secret.


23 posted on 07/29/2020 11:16:19 AM PDT by rhinohunter (FAUCI MUST GO!!!)
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To: RandFan

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3865281/posts
Lincoln Project reports raising $16.8 million for anti-Trump efforts
The Hill ^ | 7/15/2020 | Tal Axelrod

Among the organization’s most prominent donors are billionaire hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel, who gave $1 million, business magnate David Geffen, who gave $100,000, and Bain Capital chairman Joshua Bekenstein, who also gave $100,000.


David Geffen of Geffen Records and DreamWorks SKG has never been conservative

He was an early financial supporter of President Bill Clinton. In 2001, he had a quarrel with the former president over Clinton’s decision not to pardon Leonard Peltier, on whose behalf he had lobbied the President.[37]

Geffen was an early supporter of Barack Obama for president and raised $1.3 million for Obama in a star-studded Beverly Hills fundraiser.[38] On February 21, 2007, in an interview with Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, Geffen described Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton in unflattering terms: “Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.” He said that Hillary Clinton was “incredibly polarizing” and described Bill Clinton as “reckless” and cast doubt on those who say he has become a different person since leaving office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Geffen


24 posted on 07/29/2020 11:16:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: RandFan

How much of that $4 million did Vladimir Putin contribute?


25 posted on 07/29/2020 11:19:33 AM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: Cboldt

Funny too, they are targeting RINO’s that are not far enough left!


Yes I find it very strange. You would think if you were a Mitt Romney Republican then Susan Collins would be your kind of senator!

These people are obviously Dems .. the media should stop calling them GOP.


26 posted on 07/29/2020 11:24:10 AM PDT by RandFan (3C)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Aren’t Ronald Reagan’s Leftist children calling out Trump for using comparisons to President Reagan (whom they both opposed as a poltician)?


27 posted on 07/29/2020 11:27:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise

I don’t pay much attention to those gnats.


28 posted on 07/29/2020 11:47:37 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: RandFan
These people are obviously Dems .. the media should stop calling them GOP.

If the media did that, then they wouldn't be DNC stooges, would they?

29 posted on 07/29/2020 12:09:24 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: RandFan

Buncha grifters.


30 posted on 07/29/2020 12:45:22 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Aren’t Ronald Reagan’s Leftist children calling out Trump for using comparisons to President Reagan (whom they both opposed as a poltician)?

Not the kids, it was the Reagan Foundation. I don't know what control, if any, they exercise over it.

31 posted on 07/29/2020 12:49:44 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RandFan

So their goal is what?


32 posted on 07/29/2020 12:51:50 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

“burn the house down”.


33 posted on 07/29/2020 12:52:13 PM PDT by RandFan (3C)
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To: EinNYC

Thanks. You may be on a good track


34 posted on 07/29/2020 1:14:20 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: RandFan
Why do they keep calling them a GOP group? I dont understand how they could be wanting to flip the Senate!

Even Susan Collins is too conservative for this "GOP group."

35 posted on 07/29/2020 1:52:00 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: RandFan

Who is their target audience? Who are they trying to influence?


36 posted on 07/29/2020 2:10:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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