Campaign ads for Democrats Mikie Sherrill, top, and Abigail Spanberger, link their Republican opponents to President Trump.Credit...From top: Greater Garden State, Spanberger for VA GovernorPosted on 10/19/2025 5:50:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Campaign ads for Democrats Mikie Sherrill, top, and Abigail Spanberger, link their Republican opponents to President Trump.Credit...From top: Greater Garden State, Spanberger for VA Governor
In New Jersey, Virginia and beyond, voters have been inundated with ads linking Republican candidates to the president. Some Democratic strategists see a missed opportunity to forge a more positive message.
Campaign ads for Democrats Mikie Sherrill, top, and Abigail Spanberger, link their Republican opponents to President Trump.Credit...From top: Greater Garden State, Spanberger for VA Governor
In New Jersey, the most expensive attack ad in the governor’s race so far this fall accuses the Republican nominee, Jack Ciattarelli, of wanting to be “the Trump of Trenton.”
In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee for governor, has spent millions of dollars casting her Republican rival, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, as an acolyte of President Trump and supporter of his policies. “Sears speaks for Trump,” the narrator warns in one recent ad.
And in California, a blizzard of TV ads has urged voters to fight against Mr. Trump — by backing a ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional lines. “We can stop Trump cold,” Gavin Newsom, the state’s Democratic governor, says in that campaign’s most-aired ad.
After a year of soul-searching and introspection by Democrats about what they should stand for after losing the White House and Senate in 2024, the party is largely coalescing behind the same message that has united it for the past decade: stopping Donald J. Trump.
From coast to coast, the tactical decision to...
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They’ll be running against him for 20 years, bringing him up in every Congressional election
Like we do Obama
Trump lives rent free in their heads 24/7/365.....LOL
Imho linking republican to trump is a win for republican candidates.
THE ELECTION....IS OVER.
Politics needs an enemy.
It’s not hard to mislead the stupids.
Hence, those ads.
“After a year of soul-searching and introspection by Democrats about what they should stand for after losing the White House and Senate in 2024, the party is largely coalescing. . .”
How does one coalesce around a message one never abandoned?
Exactly! I agree. Why wouldn’t a candidate want to be connected to a winner like Trump? He has overcome all odds and is still on top!
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