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 ...
David Geffen and other have given to this fake “Republican” group. Not even RINOs. Democrat loyalists lying to Republican voters.
Mitch McConnell should be speaking out trying to keep the Senate.
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.
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
How much of that $4 million did Vladimir Putin contribute?
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.
Aren’t Ronald Reagan’s Leftist children calling out Trump for using comparisons to President Reagan (whom they both opposed as a poltician)?
I don’t pay much attention to those gnats.
If the media did that, then they wouldn't be DNC stooges, would they?
Buncha grifters.
Not the kids, it was the Reagan Foundation. I don't know what control, if any, they exercise over it.
So their goal is what?
“burn the house down”.
Thanks. You may be on a good track
Even Susan Collins is too conservative for this "GOP group."
Who is their target audience? Who are they trying to influence?
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