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#EndorseThis: The Trump Campaign Doesn’t Want You To See This Ad

#EndorseThis: The Trump Campaign Doesn’t Want You To See This Ad

Considering how eagerly the Trump campaign instigates, spreads, retweets, and insistently encourages falsehoods, it is amusing to see them attempt to suppress an ad created by Priorities USA Action. The Democratic super PAC’s brief video reviews the president’s loony responses to the coronavirus pandemic and it is — as Trump himself might say — “perfect” in its accuracy.

The stench of hypocrisy will never stop the Trumpsters from seeking to suppress the truth, of course, which is why they sent a “cease and desist” letter to broadcasters concerning this ad. But they can’t stop you from watching it here — or from sharing it with all your friends.

Pawlenty Brags About Government Shutdown In Latest TV Spot

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose campaign remains mired in the single digits as the charismatic congresswoman from the Minneapolis suburbs continues to suck up all the air in the room, released a new TV spot yesterday continuing his contrast of “rhetoric” (Bachmann) with “results” (him). He also bragged about shutting down his state’s government:

Pawlenty will need a strong showing at the Ames Straw Poll next month to shake up the narrative of his weak campaign and give him some momentum heading into the caucuses early in 2012.

Bachmann Doubles Down on Default Amidst Migraine Revelations and Bodyguards Attacking Journalist

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann continues her push for the “default now!” vote with a second Iowa TV spot touting her opposition to the U.S. remaining creditworthy, repeating her signature “I.will.not.vote.to.increase.the.debt.ceiling,” line.

It will be interesting to see how this affects her numbers when we do either a) default or b) raise the debt limit (marginalizing her as to the right of John Boehner and Eric Cantor), though perhaps the latter is exactly what she’s after.

But she’s been pushed off message this week, as several former aides who apparently enjoy dishing dirt on her outed the congresswoman as a serial migraine sufferer who is regularly incapacitated for days at a time and has even been hospitalized repeatedly over the past few years. Her bodyguards did not take kindly to ABC investigative journalist Brian Ross pressing her on the issue at a campaign event Tuesday:

Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force. In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one. Ross was finally able to break away and lob his question at Bachmann one more time, but she continued to ignore him.

Afterward, I asked Ross — a hard-nosed pro who nevertheless seemed slightly shaken — whether he had ever been treated so roughly. “A few times,” he told me. “Mostly by Mafia people.”

Considering that Bachmann has run screaming out of a bathroom, fearing for her sexual purity when lesbian constituents were asking about her views on LGBT issues, and has been spotted hiding in the bushes at a marriage equality rally, the migraines–and the bizarre way she is dealing with their revelation–only add to the growing mystique swirling around the culture warrior, despite her best efforts to run a campaign based on the fiscal crisis confronting the nation.

New RNC Ad Attempts To Use Obama’s Words Against Him

The Republican National Committee is out with its latest national TV spot, hanging the economy around Obama’s neck in the context of promises made during his acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver:

Only problem here is that most Americans, according to polls–even if they disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy–still attribute significant blame to Bush. Almost all of the horrendous economic statistics in the ad reflect the anemic period from January-March 2009, when Obama inherited the Bush economy in a tailspin.

Key to his reelection hopes is a positive message that things are improving but that also acknowledges the immense pain still being felt. Obama managed, despite journalists’ fretting to the contrary, to connect with the economically fearful in the fall of 2008; he needs to do so again in 2012.