Trump wanted to run on bigotry and fear instead of a good economy.
President Trump "hated" his campaign's closing ad and insisted on pivoting to immigration https://t.co/g524YvIXRS pic.twitter.com/fGHzb0iwOX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 6, 2018
And yet the list of current elected Republicans who are raising alarms about Trump closing his campaign with the most open appeals to white racial resentments & fears since George Wallace (and maybe more overt than even him) includes….waiting, waiting, waiting. https://t.co/lvVTyGIeWO
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 6, 2018
Guess who likes that ad ——> https://t.co/IdtWwjjmxX
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 5, 2018
So, to summarize today's ad action: @CNN, @NBC, @FoxNews and @Facebook have all rejected an ad by the *President of the United States* because they consider it racist. Amazing.
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) November 5, 2018
That racist Trump ad WAS running on Fox News, but not anymore: "Upon further review, FOX News pulled the ad yesterday and it will not appear on either FOX News Channel or FOX Business Network," ad sales president Marianne Gambelli says. https://t.co/BJWKspmiwM
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 5, 2018
Trump claims he didn't know his campaign's immigration ad now will not air on Fox, NBC and CNN.
"I don't know about it, you're telling me something I don't know … We have a lot of ads."
He added: "A lot of things are offensive … Your questions are offensive.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 5, 2018
Fox News takes a principled stand against airing fear-mongering videos about immigration. https://t.co/3iD7FQ7lyq
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 5, 2018
Notice how the clear use of "racist" to describe this advertisement changed the entire conversation surrounding it. Not racially charged. Not plays on racial anxieties. But racist https://t.co/T1u3yyyNkL
— Astead (@AsteadWesley) November 5, 2018
Sad! 