More than $500,000 TV and digital ad campaign will target 6 key markets
Today, DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney announced the DCCC’s first major TV and digital campaign of the 2022 Election Cycle. The campaign exposes Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne, along with six other vulnerable Washington Republicans for being too weak to stand up to President Trump and the QAnon mob after he whipped them into a murderous frenzy, making it clear that each “stood with Q, not you.” The 30-second TV ad and digital spot will play in Dallas exposing Congresswoman Van Duyne, and across key local broadcast and cable stations in Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Omaha, and Washington, DC, as well as to targeted audiences across digital platforms.
This historically early investment from the DCCC comes as Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne and Washington Republicans continue to show they are too weak to stop the QAnon mob’s takeover of their party. The ad specifically spotlights the clearest example of that takeover. On January 6, President Trump and his top enablers in Congress whipped their supporters into a violent mob, then caved to their QAnon mob’s demands just hours after the mob murdered a police officer, when two thirds of the House Republican Caucus voted against recognizing a free and fair election.
“Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne has made her choice – she chose to cave to the murderous QAnon mob that has taken over her party,” said DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney. “Washington Republicans are trying to have it both ways – refusing to hold those responsible for the attack on the Capitol accountable, offering nothing but empty words after years of hyping up lies and conspiracy theories. There is no middle ground, but their actions have made one thing clear — no American will be safe from the QAnon mob if Van Duyne’s party is in power.”
While Beth Van Duyne and Washington Republicans may not recognize the threat the QAnon mob poses to our country, the American people do.
New polling conducted on behalf of the DCCC by ALG and GBAO shows that QAnon holds a 68% name ID among voters in battleground districts, with an overwhelming negative perception: 5% favorable, 63% unfavorable. With more than 21 months to go before the election, and Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene as the most prominent faces of their caucus, voters’ familiarity with QAnon will only grow, while Republicans in Washington carry the mark.
SCRIPT for “Stood” targeting Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne in TX-24:
QAnon. A conspiracy theory born online took over the Republican Party. Sent followers to Congress. And, with Donald Trump, incited a mob that took over the Capitol, and murdered a cop.
Then, Trump and Republicans in Congress sided with the violent QAnon mob
Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne should have stood with us, but she was a coward, she voted to protect Trump.
Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne: she stood with Q, not you.
Similar versions will play spotlighting Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Rep. Young Kim, Rep. Michelle Steel, Rep. Don Bacon, and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar.
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