The Lincoln Project ads are working -- Trump's re-election campaign has been utterly derailed

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/the-lincoln-project-ads-are-derailing-trumps-re-election-campaign/


On Saturday, The Guardian profiled The Lincoln Project — the group of disaffected Republican strategists who have turned against their former party and are releasing a string of needling ads attacking President Donald Trump.

“In their launch manifesto, published as a column in the New York Times, the founders said their goal was ‘defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box’, including his Republican supporters in Congress,” reported Richard Wolffe. “To that end, they said their efforts were about “persuading enough disaffected conservatives, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in swing states and districts” to defeat Trump and elect congressional majorities opposed to Trumpism.”

According to executive director Sarah Lenti, one of the ways this is accomplished is by sharing testimonials from anti-Trump Republicans up and down the ballot, who GOP voters respect and listen to — in the hope that just enough of them will be persuaded against Trump to cost him the election. But another big part of the strategy, she said, is to provoke Trump himself into melting down until the voters tire of him.

“Some of these ads have an audience of one,” she said. “That’s always been part of the strategy. Because every time he gets off message, spewing grievances, he’s not campaigning. The idea is to get him off message again and again and again. It bothers him. We hear from people inside the White House that he wants them to make us go away. But we’re not going away.”

*snip*

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Link to Guardian article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/01/lincoln-project-donald-trump-republicans-campaign-ads?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[calimary]

14. Good! Thanks!

This strategy of knocking him off his game is utter GENIUS!

MAN do they ever understand their target!

Some of the best psy-ops I’ve seen!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. They're totally trolling him; they know he can't resist taking their bait

every single damn time. It's weapons-grade, industrial-strength trolling, truly brilliant.

[oasis]

2. Stick a fork in the "re-election".

[denem]

3. As Rick Wilson said, winning is not enough,

"This has to be an electoral college wipeout, and it has to hurt.

He has to be crushed, humiliated, and driven from office, public life, and society."

[denem]

4. The Lincoln Project has people inside the Trump campaign,

reporting back their strategies, and the time they spend internally reacting to the ads. But they don't need insiders to know when they are getting to trump.

[Renew Deal]

5. "Our job isn't to reform the Republican party. Our job is to end Trump and Trumpism."

That's for sure. What is the job of Nina Turner and others?

[denem]

6. "What is the job of Nina Turner and others?"

To topple the Democratic Party, one way or another.

[calimary]

13. The heck with Nina Turner.

It’s been nice NOT hearing from her. She’s a one-woman turn-off. A walking talking buzz kill. She doesn’t help the cause. She seems to delight in kicking it, and us Dems, in the teeth. I keep wondering what on earth we did to her that she’s become such a disrupter! It’s the Democratic Party that’s set up to deliver more of what she wants (or says she wants), in the first place, for Pete’s sake! Her wish list wouldn’t have a prayer with the GOP.

[lastlib]

16. They will have to destroy the repuglikan party if they want to save it.

In Viet Nam, it was Ben Tre. Here, in these times, it's tRumpski himself, and his cult of Kool-Aid drinkers, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis that must be obliterated, and not just electorally. Their defeat must be so cataclysmic that the few left will ooze away and die in the wilderness, with no stones marking their graves. Then, perhaps, an actual opposition party that can actually govern can be tolerated.

[Hekate]

17. Really does make you wonder

[Joinfortmill]

7. They rock.

[dalton99a]

8. The Trump cult is a mortal danger to America and must be utterly destroyed.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Portland Moms ad made me cry.

Not exactly sure that’s ever happened to me before, when watching a political ad.

[MontanaMama]

12. Holy hell. Your post made me search

for that ad. Beautiful, powerful ad.

[RobertDevereaux]

10. May their goal be met . . . Devastatingly.

Decimate-times-ten this toxic anti-American political party.

[Illumination]

11. Whisper whisper! He's melting! Keep toying with that little peanut brain!

[IronLionZion]

18. Earlier when some DUers claimed it's not working, preaching to the choir, deplorables won't change,

that's when I knew it was working. Douchebag's margins were so low that a few voters can make a massive difference. People always think of the worst deplorables but don't think as much about the more normal voters whose support was very soft to begin with.

Supposedly Biden can flip some swing voters back to blue. So having both the Lincoln Project and Biden should be make a significant difference.

[NNguyenMD]

19. The Lincoln Project Staff know how to put together a damaging ad...

I am impressed with their abilities and talents, can anyone recall if the Dems have had an equivalent cabal of media gurus and ad makers who know where to hit their candidate where it hurts?

Or is it more that Trump gives them great material to work with?

The Lincoln Project ads are very compelling, with the exception of the Biden campaign ad "Faith" I am not sure if I have seen anything better produced by the Biden campaign.

[Talitha]

20. LP's getting him off message while C-19 is preventing his rallies, lol.

The orange turd's going nutz 24/7.

[Blue Owl]

21. Pssst... did you hear how small Donny's crowd was?

n/t

[Nevilledog]

22. I heard it was even smaller than his peen. Pass it on.