A pro-Trump super PAC shows Donald Trump’s “Fight! Fight!” response in Butler, Pa., to portray him as a champion for blue-collar Americans.
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Right for America, a super PAC supporting former President Donald J. Trump, is running this 30-second ad on television stations in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona at a cost of $500,000 over the past three days, according to AdImpact. Another $360,000 has been spent to run a Spanish-language version, mostly in Arizona.
Here’s a look at the ad, its accuracy and its major takeaway.
On the Screen
The ad begins with an image of Mr. Trump, as president, seen from behind while exiting a doorway at the White House as Marine guards step aside for him.
A man with a deep baritone gives voice to yellow-green headlines that flash through various forms of taxation that Mr. Trump says he wants to get rid of: “One man believes in no tax on tips. No tax on Social Security. No tax on overtime.”
As he speaks, the ad cuts through a quick succession of images of working-class and older Americans: a waitress carrying a tray of dirty dishes; an older couple at the kitchen table; a snapshot of Mr. Trump seated at his Oval Office desk flanked by Irving Locker, a D-Day veteran, and his wife, Bernice; a woman putting on an apron in a restaurant kitchen, a welder, a delivery person on a bike, a hospital worker in a surgical mask and scrubs, a man in a Dallas Cowboys shirt operating a machine.
Along the way, a clip shows Mr. Trump in a hard hat, flashing a thumbs-up. The words “American workers have been forgotten” soon follow, overlaid on a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris and her sister, Maya, laughing uproariously. That headline lingers over an image of a taxi driver behind the wheel, and then a truck driver filling his tank and looking up at the sun.
The ad cuts to video of Mr. Trump in the moments after he was nearly assassinated in July in Pennsylvania, pumping his fist and mouthing the word “fight,” as the headline “One man will refuse to fall” appears.
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