Posted on 09/17/2021 3:52:40 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
The anti-Trump Republican group that spent more than $80 million in 2020 helping to knock the former president out of the White House is now turning its fire on Gov. Greg Abbott.
The Lincoln Project announced on Friday it will air an ad during the Texas Longhorns versus Rice Owls football game to highlight how many people have died in the state, blaming Abbott’s handling of the response to the disease.
“We’re reminding Texans—and all Americans—that there are real and deadly consequences to playing politics with public health,” said Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen. “Gov. Greg Abbott has failed Texas to the tune of 60,000 dead neighbors, friends, and family. Instead of recognizing his failure and working with public health officials to protect Texans, Abbott digs in further; ratcheting up his radical, anti-science, anti-vax approach to the pandemic. Texas cannot afford, or survive, the reign of this extremist governor.”
The ad comes as the death toll for COVID in Texas has been on a sharp incline. Since the beginning of this month, the state has announced 4,025 previously unreported deaths from the virus.
Abbott’s response to the current surge has relied on what he calls personal responsibility and less on the government mandates and mask requirements he used during earlier surges. While that has appealed to many Texas Republicans, it has brought criticism from city and county leaders in places like Houston where hospitals are strained.
“Every Texan has a right to choose for themselves and their children whether they will wear masks, open their businesses or get vaccinated,” Abbott’s spokeswoman, Renae Eze, said in a recent response to questions about his approach.
Abbott has requested hospitals postpone non-emergency surgeries and has opened antibody treatment centers to help relieve hospitals, but still more than 12,000 people are hospitalized with lab-confirmed COVID-19. Some regions including Waco, Corpus Christi and Beaumont have run out of intensive care beds.
In the 1-minute ad, the Lincoln Project has almost no audio, but flashes the number of deaths in Texas on the screen and says the materials used for caskets to bury the dead amount to enough for an 85-mile-long wooden wall.
“If Gov. Abbott wants to build a new wall, tell him to stop building this one,” the ads states.
The ad hits just after President Joe Biden took direct aim at Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on social media over their handling of the virus.
“Republican governors in states like Texas and Florida are doing everything they can to undermine the public health requirements that keep people safe,” Biden said on Twitter. “They're playing politics with the lives of their citizens, especially children. I refuse to give in to it.”
I’m starting to understand how those South American Death Squads came into being back in the 70’s and 80’s.
Just sayin’...
And the fact that the moronic, evil Biden dumped tens of thousands of infected illegals into Texas - for political reasons - has nothing to do with it!
Who needs Democrats when you have Republicans like The Lincoln Project.
It is pretty obvious, isn’t it.
Texas ranks 21st in Covid deaths per million, despite being - what? - our second or third most populous state.
Abbott needs to respond in an ad stating the open border has endangered Texans, Covid was introduced by infected illegals but he refuses to take away Americans right just because the administration refuses to protect its own citizens
12 thousand Haitians sitting on out border and Porky wants to pull this chit? That yankee sob and that Lincoln Project group of perverts can go to Hades.
Don’t forget that idiot Bill Kristin.
If only there were groups that could spend all of their time going after other groups like this. Spread negative information and publicity about them around the clock.
They are NOT Republicans!
“Biden said on Twitter. “They’re playing politics with the lives of their citizens, especially children. I refuse to give in to it.”
Kinda like you wanting to jab our children younger than 12, aye Potato-Head?
They’re Democrat aligned creeps and grifters pretending to be Republicans.
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Just like most of the GOP Senators.
The Lincoln Project aka the Pedophile Project is still in operation?
So the confirmed pedophiles are running more attack ads?
Instead of Anti Trump, why doesn’t the title say RINOS... Republican in Name Only.
I think you mean Bill Kristol-that guy with the smarmy smile that you just can’t help but want to f’in punch-he isn’t a Republican and neither are any of the others in the Lincoln Project-they are disaffected never Trumpers, Rinos and other closet Democrats...
Shhhh they have a lot of supporters here.
Just as Republican as Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, Hoeven, Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, Inhofe, Scott, Scott, Romney, McConnell, Cassidy, Thune, Ernst, Boozman, Murkowsky, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Shelby, Blunt, Sasse, Toomey, Rounds, Portman, Burr, Lee, Capito, Crapo, Cramer, Barrasso, Risch, Sullivan, Moran and Collins
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