ATLANTA – An anti-Donald Trump Republican political action committee has launched a new six-figure ad campaign warning voters to “wake up” to the threat it says the former president poses to American democracy.
The 60-second ad, being run by the Republican Accountability PAC, compares Trump to dictators who systematically dismantled their countries’ democracies, including Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and Augusto Pinochet of Chile.
“Trump said he would terminate the Constitution so he could be president again,” the ad states. “Do you know who also did that? Mussolini, Chavez, Pinochet.”
The ad will run nationally on CNN and MSNBC and in the swing states of Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the Hallmark Chanel and during TBS’ “A Christmas Story” marathon. The campaign began on Friday and will run through next week.
Trump continues to hold a huge lead in various polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, despite facing multiple criminal indictments for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election, including racketeering charges in Fulton County.
“Among Republicans and Democrats alike, not enough people have internalized that Trump is cruising to a third nomination,” said Gunner Ramer, political director for the Republican Accountability PAC. “He’s become even more conspiratorial, more dictatorial, more authoritarian – and he has a real chance of being the next president of the United States. It’s time to start confronting the problem head-on.”
The Republican Accountability PAC also ran ads targeting Trump in August after he was indicted in Georgia. Last year, the PAC ran ads aimed at then-U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, the University of Georgia football icon Trump endorsed in what turned out to be an unsuccessful bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.