The Republican National Committee has a message in the wake of Tuesday’s election: Winning is winning.
A new, nearly minutelong commercial released by the organization starts with footage of cable news coverage of the special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District. Republican Troy Balderson was expected to defeat Democrat Danny O’Connor by a narrow margin, though the race had still not been called Wednesday.
The footage shows repeated uses of the phrase “moral victory” to describe the contest for former Rep. Pat Tiberi’s term. The district, which Republicans have held for 35 years, went 53 percent for President Trump to 42 percent for Hilary Clinton in 2016.
But then the commercial switches to footage from the movie “The Fast and the Furious” to make its ultimate point: that, as Vin Diesel’s character Dominic Toretto says in the clip, “Winning is winning.”
The commercial was released on YouTube on Wednesday night.
