A Democratic super PAC is planning a $5 million ad blitz hitting President Trump for how he has handled the coronavirus.
Pacronym’s ad campaign is the first major planned offensive against Trump in the 2020 election using the administration’s coronavirus response as its selling point. The multimillion-dollar investment seeks to make the government’s handling of the pandemic a major campaign issue, according to the Washington Post.
“This is a public health issue and a national security issue, but it’s also a public policy issue and thus a political one,” said Tara McGowan, founder and chief executive of Acronym, a nonprofit group affiliated with Pacronym.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh responded, targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading contender to win the Democratic nomination to challenge Trump in 2020.
“It is laughable that his allies would launch this attack when Americans can see for themselves through daily public briefings that President Trump and his team are on the case and have been so since before Joe Biden even woke up to the situation,” Murtaugh said.
If Biden wins the nomination, Trump has said that he will attack Biden over allegations of corruption against him and members of his family, including his son, Hunter Biden. The Bidens’ alleged corruption was part of the White House’s defense against impeachment articles passed by the House last year.
House Democrats voted to impeach Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Democrats passed the articles after alleging that Trump, in a July 25, 2019, call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, threatened to withhold aid from the United States all to secure investigations into Biden’s handling of U.S. foreign policy with Ukraine during the Obama administration.
