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Eugene

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Sun Aug 13, 2017, 05:26 PM Aug 2017

President Trump's reelection campaign releases television ad

Source: Reuters

#POLITICS AUGUST 13, 2017 / 12:55 PM / 4 HOURS AGO

President Trump's reelection campaign releases television ad

Ginger Gibson
3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection campaign released its first television advertisement on Sunday, a 30-second spot that attacks Democrats and touts the accomplishments of his first seven months in office.

The ad's release comes amid intense criticism of Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a planned rally by white supremacists led to violence that killed a counter-protester.

Speaking on Saturday from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump stopped short of calling the demonstrators "white supremacists" and instead criticized groups on "many sides." Even members of his own party said he had failed to adequately condemn those behind the violence.

The new advertisement uses the same video clips, still images and font as one released earlier this year by America First Policies, a political group that is able to secretly raise and spend unlimited sums of money. Trump's campaign and America First Policies are prohibited by law from coordinating with each other.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-election-idUSKCN1AT0O9?il=0
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President Trump's reelection campaign releases television ad (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2017 OP
Can't pass health care reform, but he can make an ad... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #1
If there's any justice in this universe the french fries will get him before then. Vinca Aug 2017 #2
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