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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 10:09 PM Apr 2017

Pro-Trump group launches a $3 million ad campaign to prop up House allies

Source: Washington Post

Hours before the Republican health-care plan fizzled last month, White House officials marched to the Capitol and urged party leaders to call for a vote on the House floor. Several of them later groused privately that they wanted a list of who was with President Trump and who was against him.

Although that vote was not to be, an informal tally has lived on in recent weeks, passed around the West Wing and within Trump circles. And now an influential outside group with close ties to the president is acting on it.

Leaders of America First Policies, a pro-Trump nonprofit outfit, told The Washington Post on Sunday that it is starting a $3 million advertising campaign to bolster a dozen House Republicans who publicly backed the health-care proposal that has stalled on Capitol Hill.

In a phone call, the Trump campaign veterans who run the organization described the expenditure as a gesture of appreciation to Trump’s friends in the chamber as well as a way to encourage other House Republicans to get behind the effort to revive health-care legislation.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/04/16/pro-group-trump-launches-a-3-million-ad-campaign-to-prop-up-house-allies/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-politics%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.7e8c27090d1d

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Pro-Trump group launches a $3 million ad campaign to prop up House allies (Original Post) TomCADem Apr 2017 OP
Time for more lies and propaganda not fooled Apr 2017 #1
Bring it on republicans and this spineless 504 or 503 (c) deplorable group Leaders of America First turbinetree Apr 2017 #2

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
2. Bring it on republicans and this spineless 504 or 503 (c) deplorable group Leaders of America First
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 12:23 AM
Apr 2017

, which amercia do you support one that has a illegitimate "guy's and gal's committing TREASON?


Even this Flake character, why isn't he demanding a special prosecutor, after all he swore to defend the Constitution first and fore most, when he said he would------------he kinda forgets that -------------now



I guess you and this narcissistic cheeto head didn't see what was going on in the town halls across this country, in fact lets bring back just one video from a smirky ass****, that truly thinks that he is going to be re-elected------I think that this video say's other wise





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