A Republican group against Donald Trump is mentioning how the previous president stacks as much as dictators in a brand new advert.
The Republican Accountability Venture’s “Dictator Donald” spot, which comes weeks after Trump stated he’d act like a dictator on “Day 1” of a brand new administration, sounds the alarm on the previous president’s 2024 marketing campaign.
“He brought on an rebellion on the Capitol and, sorry to smash your Christmas, however he’s operating once more,” stated the advert’s narrator, who declares that Trump is “overtly operating as a wannabe dictator.”
The advert goes on to show a Fact Social publish from the previous president who, in December 2022, referred to as for the “termination” of articles of the Structure.
“Trump stated he would terminate the Structure so he may very well be president once more,” the advert’s narrator stated.
“Have you learnt who additionally did that? Mussolini, Chávez, Pinochet — all of them shelved their Constitutions to centralize energy.”
The advert later states that Trump plans to “purge tens of hundreds of civil servants” from the federal government to switch them along with his loyalists if he’s elected to a different time period.
“Authoritarian Viktor Orbán used the identical tactic to dismantle Hungary’s democracy,” added the narrator earlier than noting Trump’s “very actual” possibilities to win the 2024 election.
“The alarm goes off, everybody must get up. We’ve got a alternative between defending our democracy or letting Trump destroy it.”
The Republican Accountability Venture stated it plans to run the advert nationally through CNN and MSNBC.
The spot, a part of a six-figure advert marketing campaign, is ready to run in plenty of swing states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — on the Hallmark Channel and through TBS’s marathon of “A Christmas Story” over the vacations.
The group seems to run the advert beginning Friday and thru subsequent week.
The Republican Accountability Venture’s newest advert joins plenty of its different spots aimed toward Trump and GOP lawmakers who’ve enabled the previous president’s 2020 election lies reminiscent of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and former Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).