All posts tagged "Lincoln Project"

A CNN panel discussion turned into a debate over the realities of abortion in GOP-led red states now and across the country if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wins the November election and if he implements Project 2025 policies. Lincoln Project strategist Stuart Stevens smacked down CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings who attempted to mock the ad and its producers.

The Lincoln Project’s new ad, “State Line,” depicts a father in a dystopian America in the not-too-distant future under a Project 2025 abortion ban driving his daughter out of a red state to obtain medical services. A police officer pulls them over and starts to interrogate the daughter, having very personal and specific information about her pregnancy, her sister’s whereabouts, and the GPS coordinates of their destination “in one of those abortion states.”

“What are you, about eight weeks pregnant?” the officer says. “I see you’ve been spotting recently. You had any cramps, or nausea?”...

A new ad running on Fox News in Mar-a-Lago from a group of anti-Trump Republicans prompted a cease-and-desist letter.

The Lincoln Project said Friday it received the letter over its ad, "Failures," which attacks top Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles.

"They got it wrong," the ad says before playing a clip of President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. "They told you that Biden should never quit — that you should spend all that time, all that money, so much money, focusing on Biden. How he's too old."
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A former GOP strategist rebuked the anything-but-normal Republican National Convention on Friday and revealed what he felt emerged as the party's greatest "weakness" — J.D. Vance.

Rick Wilson, a Republican media strategist, took to The Lincoln Project podcast to remark upon what he called the "coronation" of former President Donald Trump. He launched into his podcast blasting the normalization of the MAGA gathering.

"This idea that this was a normal Republican convention could have been dismissed at the very first milliseconds of it," he said. "This was the most bizarre transitional moment in American politics. And I don't think people have fully appreciated it yet." ...

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has vowed to not get fooled again — at least not like it did in October 2020, according to a letter the party committee sent the Federal Election Commission on Friday night.

After initially losing more than $2.3 million to hackers just days before Election Day 2020, the Republican Party of Wisconsin told the FEC that it's taken "concrete steps" to better defend against fraud after falling victim to one of the nation's largest cybertheft incidents that targeted a political committee.

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The Lincoln Project — a super PAC that ranks among former President Donald Trump’s leading antagonists — lost $35,000 in what it described to federal regulators as “fraudulent” transactions committed by cyberthieves, Raw Story has confirmed.

The Lincoln Project, which has produced a torrent of anti-Trump ads and whose leaders are fixtures on cable news, blamed the lost money on “hackers” who targeted a committee vendor.

“A vendor’s email was hacked, with the hackers producing authentic-looking invoices that were sent from our vendor’s legitimate email account. The hack affected multiple clients of the vendor, including Lincoln Project,” spokesman Greg Minchak told Raw Story, adding that the “transactions did not impact our operations in any way in the fight for a democratic future for our nation.”...

A GOP strategist on Sunday explained what he thinks is "the single most important factor in ensuring Trump's defeat."

Mike Madrid, who served as the Golden State's GOP political director before co-founding the group of current and former anti-Trump Republicans known as the Lincoln Project, encouraged Nikki Haley to stay in the GOP primary race to weaken the ex-president. The Lincoln project also recently trolled Trump at CPAC using an artificial intelligence ad that mimics his disappointed dad.

Specifically, the activist said that Republican primary voters who vote for a candidate other than Trump "are significantly less likely to return to him in the general."...