President Donald Trump, in a series of tweets Monday night, condemned a number of conservative politicians affiliated with a Lincoln Project advertisement that criticized the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump categorically referred to political strategist John Weaver, 2016 independent candidate Evan McMullin, and Steve Schmidt and Reed Galen, who both advised former Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), as “losers.”
The president’s multi-tweet thread came in response to the latest anti-Trump advertisement released earlier Monday by The Lincoln Project, the super PAC launched in December by George Conway, husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.
The somber, minutelong commercial — titled “Mourning in America,” an ode to the popular 1984 campaign commercial and slogan of former President Ronald Reagan — denounces the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying the president “ignored” the disease.
“With the economy in shambles, more than 26 million Americans are out of work − the worst economy in decades. Trump bailed out Wall Street but not Main Street.”
Trump’s response on Twitter on Monday night refuted the chances that the folks behind The Lincoln Project would be fit for reelection.
“A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, “Morning in America”, doing everything possible to..” he wrote.
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