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As Harris inches ahead, the cavalry comes to Trump’s aid on the airwaves
NPR ^ | August 27, 2024 | Domenico Montanaro

Posted on 08/27/2024 9:22:47 AM PDT by willk

Fact checking the ads The ad that has aired the most — more than 45,000 times — is from Harris’ campaign and is heavy on her background. It echoes her convention speech, portraying her as growing up working class, was raised by her mom and points out that she worked at McDonald’s. It then pivots to health care and housing costs while criticizing Trump for his tax cuts that skewed toward benefiting the wealthy.

The ad with the most money behind it — $25 million — is an anti-Harris ad from a super PAC supporting Trump, MAGA Inc. It attacks her on her record on handling immigrants in the U.S. illegally during her time as a prosecutor.

But a charge in the ad, while it has a kernel of truth, is misleading. Her office convicted Edwin Ramos, a member of the MS-13 gang, for the murder of a father and two sons. Ramos is now serving three consecutive life sentences. Following through on a campaign promise, Harris did not seek the death penalty, a decision conservatives have criticized.

The ad also alleges that Harris “let” Ramos “go” on another crime before he committed the murder. The facts on this are complicated. Ramos had been pulled over for illegally tinted windows and no front license plate. The passenger in the car, Erik Lopez, got out and ran. Police saw Lopez toss a gun into a gutter. Both men were arrested. But Harris did not bring charges against Ramos because, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported per Harris’ office “there was no evidence that Ramos had known that Lopez had a gun.”

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Notice how they say Fact Checking the Ads but don't fact check her ad? If it is the ad I have heard on the radio it is full of lies. This is the same author that said there were 162 lies and distortions in Trump's news conference. Defund NPR/PBS!!
1 posted on 08/27/2024 9:22:47 AM PDT by willk
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To: willk

I didn’t know inches were a negative measure.


2 posted on 08/27/2024 9:27:22 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: willk

Are they fact checking ads which criticize Kamala, but not fact checking Democrat ads which criticize Trump?


3 posted on 08/27/2024 9:27:52 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: willk

She is not ahead people. This is NPR blowing bullshat.


4 posted on 08/27/2024 9:28:45 AM PDT by dforest
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To: willk

Harris is attempting to run as a moderate conservative - if elected she would rule as a commie thug.

The corrupt MSM helped Biden by pretending his shills who told us he was sharp as a tack were telling the truth. And that they - the press - were too stupid to figure out Biden was having major problems.

This is the same. The press will bankrupt themselves and destroy their profession to get ‘Miss Slept Her Way to Get Top employment Positions’ elected. No talk about how people who work for Harris quit in droves... nope the MSM is in full protection mode.


5 posted on 08/27/2024 9:29:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Kamala kisses up and punches down - cgbg * Walz put tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms...)
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To: willk

Didn’t an NPR reporter just admit to openly lying about a meeting between President Trump and Bibi??

Thought so....


6 posted on 08/27/2024 9:32:33 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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The cavalry comes to Trump’s aid?

Didn’t NPR know, that liberals have told us we aren’t to use any violent or militaristic metaphors? Remember after Gabby Giffords was shit, we were lectured on that very subject?


7 posted on 08/27/2024 9:41:28 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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If Harris were really inching ahead, she wouldn’t be coopting Trump’s positions.


8 posted on 08/27/2024 9:43:06 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: dforest

Most reasonable people know this, just the concerned few are concerned


9 posted on 08/27/2024 9:46:42 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Didn’t NPR know, that liberals have told us we aren’t to use any violent or militaristic metaphors? Remember after Gabby Giffords was shot, we were lectured on that very subject?

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Well played.


10 posted on 08/27/2024 9:47:56 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: willk

the cavalry comes to Trump’s aid on the airwaves. Who is coming to the aid of who?


11 posted on 08/27/2024 9:48:36 AM PDT by pas
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Are they fact checking ads which criticize Kamala, but not fact checking Democrat ads which criticize Trump?”

Yes. They mention her main ad under “Fact Checking the Ads” but then they don’t fact check it. They only fact check Trumps ad. Unbelievable!😠


12 posted on 08/27/2024 9:58:51 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: dforest

Remember 70% of the people don’t know who she really is or what she stands for. So what is the best option for her campaign team to make for a ghost candidate? Of course make her look closer to a MAGA mirror image and pull the wool over the people. That’s the reason why her camp is stealing all trumps ideas because they know that the people don’t know who she. She has not given an interview and she doesn’t want to do the debate …what for? The DNC demonic snakes are doing all the work for her while she hides under a rock! Reason why her poll numbers are high. And they will keep her under the rock until November 5 you can bet on it count on it bank on it she ain’t gonna do no debate or interviews from here on. She keeps going up in the polls because she’s keeping her mouth shut. So don’t count on an interview or a debate. It’s not going to happen.


13 posted on 08/27/2024 10:10:12 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: willk

The Hollowoody Weirdos spend a fortune buying the U.S. Government for the Jamaican and Injun refugees.


14 posted on 08/27/2024 10:18:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! A vote for the Voo Doo Hoo Doo and Timmy is a vote for another four years of Kenyan BS.)
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Only NPR and the liberal media push the lie that Kamala Harris is gaining ground

But lies work on the low-I.Q. crowd


15 posted on 08/27/2024 10:19:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: willk
Why would you post NPR sourced material here? The website you must be looking for is called Democratic Underground. Hope this helps!

16 posted on 08/27/2024 10:20:32 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: willk

Her ad says that Trump has no plan to help the middle class. His entire platform is pretty much geared to protecting and saving the middle class.

Besides raising taxes and doing everything else imaginable to hurt the middle class democrats are trying to do things like eliminate single family neighborhoods.


17 posted on 08/27/2024 11:12:34 AM PDT by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump)
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To: FlipWilson

As Harris inches ahead..... Snicker


18 posted on 08/27/2024 11:22:12 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: FlipWilson

RIGHT—————EVERYBODY lets someone into their car with a gun & “DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT IT”.......


19 posted on 08/27/2024 11:27:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; willk

Indeed, it’s a jolly good thing the Reagan Administration didn’t monitor Pravda.

And it was wise that the Allies never read any of the Reich’s newspapers.


20 posted on 08/27/2024 11:28:28 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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