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Related: About this forumU.S. conservative group to launch attacks ads against Biden during Democratic debate
JUNE 22, 2019 / 6:02 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Ginger Gibson
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Club for Growth, a conservative political group, will launch new attack ads against Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden targeting his past statements about race that will run during his first debate appearance next week.
The decision by Club for Growth to attack Biden is based on internal polling the organization conducted that was viewed exclusively by Reuters. The ad will air on MSNBC and NBC stations in Des Moines, Iowa, according to the organization. Iowa holds the nations first nominating contest.
Club for Growth, whose stated top policy goals include reducing income tax rates, a full repeal of Obamacare and reducing the size of the federal government, will never back a Democrat for president, but it is wading into the Democratic primary likely because Biden poses the greatest risk to Republican President Donald Trumps reelection bid. Early national polling and surveys in important swing states have repeatedly shown Biden besting Trump in a hypothetical match up.
Club for Growths poll found voters are less inclined to vote for Biden if they were told he previously had taken positions that include opposing slavery reparations and busing of school children as part of desegregation systems.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)to run an ad against the Club For Greed. Their kind is one the reason that we have so many of the problems that we face today.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Founder of the Club for Growth Stephen Moore
June 3, 2016 In an interiew on the Janet Mefford Today Show, Moore described global warming as one of the greatest propaganda campaigns in world history and a dingbat idea, CNSNews.com reported.
So, its very alarming how this propaganda campaign, that they made this stuff out of, almost completely out of thin air and theyve convinced millions and millions of thought leaders that this stuff is real.
https://www.desmogblog.com/stephen-moore
The Club for Growth has opposed government action to curb greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, the Club for Growth pressured Republican politicians not to support a cap-and-trade bill, which the group viewed as being "extremely harmful to the economy."In 2011, the group issued a white paper criticizing presidential candidate Mitt Romney's regulatory record as Massachusetts governor, including his support of global warming policies.In 2017, the group called on President Trump to exit the Paris Agreement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth#Climate_change
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
ancianita
(36,133 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Otto Lidenbrock
(581 posts)There was footage conservative groups shared about Biden saying in 2014:
"You know, 11 million people live in the shadows. I believe they're already American citizens," Biden said at a U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event in March 2014. "These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans, in my view."
So on one hand they want to paint Biden as no moderate but an open borders candidate who supports immigrants to strike fear into their base of white people but on the other hand they want to paint him as racist. Cover all bases.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)The incoming will be raining down on you from all directions.. I hope this is not used on commercial TV as in buying ads during the debates.. this just makes me sick.. but not surprised.. not at all
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Indygram
(2,113 posts)They ran one against Beto before he even announced because they are terrified of what he did in Texas happening all over the country.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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ancianita
(36,133 posts)In 2013, the Club for Growth super PAC's donors included Peter Thiel, who gave $2 million;
Virginia James, $1.2 million;
John W. Childs, $1.1 million (chairman and founder of the Boston-based private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates);
Robert D. Arnott, $750,000 ( chairman and chief executive of California-based Research Affiliates); Robert Mercer, co-chief executive of Renaissance Technologies and part-owner of Cambridge Analytica, $600,000; and
hedge fund manager Paul Singer gave $100,000.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)It will heighten his stature as the one Republicans fear most.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)The growth this group is for is cancerous.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,655 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden