Trump Ads To Frighten Seniors Into Voting For Him Over Urban 'Criminal Gangs' Isn't Working
'Columnist explains why Trumps attempt to frighten seniors into voting for him isnt working.' By Alex Henderson, Alternet, July 23, 2020.
Senior citizens have been prominently featured in some of President Donald Trumps attack ads against former Vice President Joe Biden, who the ads claim will do nothing to protect them from gangs of vicious criminals. But according to liberal Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent, Trumps effort to win back older voters by terrifying them isnt working.
Heres President Trumps new reelection strategy in a nutshell: convince vulnerable seniors who rightly fear getting killed by the pandemic that Trump let rampage out of control that they should instead fear getting killed by criminals who would supposedly rampage out of control in a future post-police dystopia that is entirely invented, Sargent explains in a column this week. Trump just announced a plan to dispatch more federal law enforcement into Democratic cities without the assent of local officials while offering numerous lurid exaggerations about urban crime and the supposed radical movement to dissolve police departments.
Sargent goes on to describe how extreme and over-the-top of Trumps recent anti-Biden ads have been. Trump, the columnist observes, is running a new spot that depicts an elderly woman calling the police in terror as a marauder circles her house like a vulture, only to find that in Joe Bidens America, the police are no longer there. In recent weeks, Trumps campaign has spent $20 million on the ad and others like it. But that ad is based on a lie: it falsely claims Biden would defund the police.
The Post columnist continues,: The fear of death hovers over that ad. Its no accident that this comes as Trump is bleeding support among seniors, very likely due to his catastrophic mishandling of the virus, because they have the most to fear from it
. But heres a funny thing: recent polling suggests Trump may be losing the argument over both coronavirus and law and order even among elderly people....
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/columnist-explains-why-trumps-attempt-to-frighten-seniors-into-voting-for-him-isnt-working/
EarlG
(21,985 posts)Scary ads how the Democrats love MS-13, aimed at frightening white suburban voters. It was a complete failure, so I'm glad to see they're trying the exact same thing all over again.
Phoenix61
(17,023 posts)of this administration. They want to see their grandchildren and are tired of worrying about their childrens ability to provide for their family. One thing that opens people to change is when the pain of the present out weighs the fear of the future. They were told they should die for the economy. If they get covid they may face a triage situation where they wont even be admitted to the hospital. Maybe gays getting married isnt such a big deal. Maybe police reform could be a good thing. Maybe some change isnt such a bad thing after all.
sop
(10,284 posts)Pobeka
(4,999 posts)All of the people have had their fill of the some of the time lies. I hope this means Trump's credibility is fully tanked for a large majority of the population. If I'm right, there is literally nothing he can say or do now that won't be viewed as a lie or wreckless waste of government resources.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm just kidding. I remember a lot of fear that this would be a repeat of 1968 -- LOL.