Could this anti-Trump Republican group take down the president?

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Savage attack ads from a well-funded group of dissident Republicans are aiming to sway a key sliver of opinion in swing states



Richard Wolffe in Washington

Amid all the noise of an election involving Donald Trump – all the inflammatory tweets and shadowy Facebook posts – one set of ads has somehow managed to break through.

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Disdain appears to be the consensus view from the pundits. Atlantic magazine called their ads “personally abusive, overwrought, pointlessly salacious, and trip-wired with non sequiturs”. The New Republic examined what it called “the viral impotency” of the Lincoln Project, suggesting they couldn’t “persuade voters of anything”. Even the Washington Post declared most of their ads were “aimed not at persuading disaffected Republicans but simply at needling the president”.

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But for some of the ads it is clear they are engaged in a battle for the attention of a singular target.

“Some of these ads have an audience of one,” says Lenti. “That’s always been part of the strategy. Because every time he gets off message, spewing grievances, he’s not campaigning. The idea is to get him off message again and again and again. It bothers him. We hear from people inside the White House that he wants them to make us go away. But we’re not going away.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/01/lincoln-project-donald-trump-republicans-campaign-ads

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Let's be perfectly clear... Trump's own actions are taking him down

While I appreciate LP's efforts, Biden will win because Trump has proven to all (except those not listening) that he's an incompetent boob.

Besides, those on the Lincoln Project brought us to this point to begin with (going back to, at least, the Tea Party nonsense 10 years ago). Yeah guys, thanks for trying to kill the monster you created...

[agingdem]

2. The Lincoln Project hates Trump more than they hate Democrats

and if anyone knows what really pisses off Republicans they certainly do...Wilson, Schmidt, Conway do not play nice..good..they didn't create this depraved, amoral monster but they brought it out of the shadows, gave it a voice, and normalized it.....let them take it down and then go away...