Republican Group Launches $3 Million Ad Blitz Targeting Election Denying Republicans

The conservative group The Republican Accountability Project launched a $3 million ad blitz this week right before the midterms, targeting Republican candidates who deny the results of the 2020 election. The group has aired ads on both Fox News and Newsmax, hoping to sway the audience enough for them to reject candidates who are a threat to democracy. That's very wishful thinking on their part, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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With just one week to go before the midterms, a Republican group called the Republican Accountability Project launched a 3 million ad blitz targeting Republicans who deny the results of the 2020 election. So this new ad campaign has been running for a few days. They've put ads on Fox News, they've put ads on Fox Business, they've put it on newsmax. They are targeting Republican voters, letting them know how crazy these election deniers are. I like this plan. They're just not doing it very well. First of all, you started it a week before the election happens. Um, little late in the game at that point. So not exactly sure how effective that is going to be. Second of all, your ads don't actually call out any specific Republicans by name.

So who are you targeting? right? If you're running a political ad, you're not endorsing a candidate. You're not attacking any candidates. You're not endorsing or attacking any political party per se. So what the hell are you doing? Now, believe it or not, I actually like the Republican Accountability Project. I've, I've talked about them before. I like what they do. This was just a misfire. Like even if you wanna do it the final week before the election, you know that can be excusable. I'm not too hung up on that issue, but you have to call these people out by name, right? You have to show the voters in these areas like don't vote for Doug Masano in Pennsylvania because he's a frigging nut job. Who thinks the 2020 election was fake? Don't vote for Kerry Lake. She thinks the same thing. Don't vote for Herschel Walker. He said the same thing. Don't vote for any of these other Republican idiots who say the same thing. You have to call them out. If you do not do that, you do not have a message to sell. So what the hell are you doing other than apparently wasting 3 million on something? That should have been a pretty easy slam dunk. You don't have to go searching very hard to find Republicans who think the 2020 election was false. They're all over the place. They're very open about it.

But you didn't do that. So now you got a 3 million ad campaign running on conservative media that's just telling voters like, Please don't vote for people who say this thing, but we're not gonna tell you who says this thing. You voter have to go do that homework yourself. That never works, by the way, whether it's Republicans, whether it's Democrats telling people to go and do their own homework, never works in campaigns. You know, we had that same problem, by the way, with Hillary Clinton in 2016. She was running all these ads attacking Donald Trump ads that were talking about everything except for policy. And if you brought up that she wasn't talking about policy, you know what the response was? We'll, go look at her website, Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang, with his new forward party. Every time he tweets something, people make fun of him saying he has no platform.

His supporters come out and say, We'll just go look at their website. Technically, it's not the voter's job to have to go and do that research. They should be doing it. Uh, don't get me wrong. They should, but they don't. It's up to the candidate to the person to tell them what they stand for. And it's the same thing with this Republican group putting out these ads. It's great that you're attacking these people, but you kind of have to tell the people, which people you're attacking so they know who not to vote for. Otherwise, this is just an empty message that cost you $3 million.