All posts tagged "Trump Ads"

A prominent election lawyer says the Trump Justice Department's excuse for ignoring a federal judge's order points to something far more troubling.

Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias warned in an episode of his YouTube show Tuesday that the Trump administration is "willing to slow walk in order to buy time" with the midterm elections just three weeks away.

The case involves taxpayer-funded ads featuring President Donald Trump that the Department of Homeland Security paid to air. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday evening barring the ads, which were challenged in a lawsuit brought by groups including Democracy Forward, an organization Elias chairs. The ads kept running into Monday, Elias said....

Voters who helped put President Donald Trump back in office are recoiling from his latest stunt, a former GOP pollster found.

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, wrote Friday that she gathered a group of Florida voters who backed Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of his job performance. She then showed them one of the taxpayer-funded "public service announcements" running during NFL games, college football and "Dancing with the Stars."

The spot pulls from a 2024 campaign rally speech in which Trump vows to "demolish the deep state," "drive out the globalists" and "liberate America from these villains once and for all."...

President Donald Trump is preparing to flood the airwaves with “many more” taxpayer-funded ads as part of his strategy to combat rising Republican anxiety over the midterms, according to new CNN reporting.

CNN correspondent Arlette Saenz reported Friday that Trump believes what is “plaguing” Republican candidates is a “messaging problem.”

Trump’s solution, Saenz said, is a two-pronged approach: campaign in reliably red states and “flood the airwaves.”...

Republican senators are turning on President Donald Trump's government-funded ads glorifying himself, with one pointing to an unexpected source of funding.

In a Thursday article for The Bulwark, Joe Perticone reported pushback from multiple GOP senators on ads that have been airing during NFL games and feature Trump's voice promising supporters a reckoning with his enemies. In one ad, Trump strides down a hallway as he vows to "demolish the deep state" and "rout the fake news media."

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) flatly rejected President Donald Trump's government-funded ads glorifying himself, and when asked whether the president is permitted to run the spots, he answered with a blunt "no," according to a report. Cornyn then took a jab at former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while floating a theory about the source of the money....