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House GOP Campaign Arm Runs Ad Praising Rep. For Standing Up To Trump (VIDEO)
Source: TPM
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP's campaign arm, is running an ad praising Rep. Bob Dold (R-IL) for standing up to Donald Trump.
Dold, who represents Illinois’ 10th Congressional District, is one of the most endangered incumbent House Republicans of the election cycle, according to the National Review’s report on the ad.
“Dold is an independent voice who stood up to Donald Trump months ago,” the narrator in the ad says, after calling the congressman “one of the most bi-partisan members of Congress.”
The ad then cuts to Dold saying on CNN: “I think Donald Trump has disqualified himself.”
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dold-anti-trump-ad-nrcc
From the National Review article on this:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/441506/nrcc-praises-bob-dold-having-stood-donald-trump
The ad has been on air since earlier this week. It does not appear on the NRCC’s website, and the NRCC declined to comment on it.
The messaging comes at a rather fraught time for Republican leadership, with a number of members of the House Freedom Caucus agitating to punish leadership — and particularly Speaker Paul Ryan — for backing away from supporting Trump.
The messaging comes at a rather fraught time for Republican leadership, with a number of members of the House Freedom Caucus agitating to punish leadership — and particularly Speaker Paul Ryan — for backing away from supporting Trump.
