Individual political action committees are rarely the subject of attack ads. But on Tuesday, the conservative Club for Growth released a one-minute spot targeting the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group of longtime Republican operatives that has released a series of caustic ads targeting the president.
“They don’t just hate him, they hate you,” the ad reads over footage of Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson mocking the intelligence of Trump voters on CNN, while host Don Lemon cracks up, practically in tears. The ad pushes a simple message: The Lincoln Project is nothing but a “Democrat PAC” and a “get-rich-quick scheme” from the swamp-dwellers who mangled John McCain’s and Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful presidential campaigns. “The Lincoln Project has nothing to do with principle, and everything to do with lining the pockets of failed consultants by attacking conservatives,” Club for Growth president David McIntosh said in a statement. “While the group is the darling of the liberal media, the fact is that it’s a Democrat front group and one of the least efficient ways for anti-Trumpers to spend their political dollars.”
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