Author Topic: Did Claudia Tenney and House GOP give up on Donald Trump in TV ad? (Read 602 times)

Oceander · « **on:** October 16, 2016, 04:38:32 pm »

By Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com
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on October 14, 2016 at 8:20 PM, updated October 14, 2016 at 8:33 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The campaign arm of House Republicans seems to suggest in a new ad for GOP congressional candidate Claudia Tenney that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election over Donald Trump.
The 30-second ad, which began airing Tuesday across the Utica-based 22nd Congressional District, never mentions Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
Instead, the commercial suggests Tenney would be among House GOP members battling the legislative agenda of Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
"She'll stand up to Hillary Clinton, just like she's always stood up to Governor Cuomo," the announcer says, referring to Tenney.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, which paid for the ads as part of a planned $2 million blitz in the 22nd District, says the new ad does not reflect a change a strategy or assume Trump will lose the Nov. 8 election.
"We're just trying to highlight that Claudia Tenney has been an independent voice for New York who has a record of standing up to liberal Democrats like Clinton and Andrew Cuomo," said Chris Pack, an NRCC spokesman in Washington.
Tenney is a Trump supporter who has stood by the GOP nominee, even as other Republicans have called for him to step down following the release of a tape of Trump talking in vulgar terms about the sexual assault of women.
The Tenney campaign could not be reached for comment Friday evening.
A second NRCC ad for Tenney said her opponents – Democrat Kim Myers and third-party candidate Martin Babinec – will help push Clinton's agenda. That ad also made no mention of Trump. Instead, an announcer says Myers and Babinec will support Clinton and Obamacare.
"That's why we can't let extreme liberal Kim Myers and millionaire Martin Babinec rubber stamp Hillary Clinton's agenda in Congress," the announcer said.

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Oceander · « **Reply #1 on:** October 16, 2016, 04:39:14 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxP7_O8fBDc

Oceander · « **Reply #2 on:** October 16, 2016, 04:39:32 pm »

Reality sinking in.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #3 on:** October 16, 2016, 08:19:34 pm »

Hmm. The NRCC did this, and the district is Rockefeller-Republican and might go for Clinton (Sherwood Boehlert and Richard Hanna were the previous reps. of this area). Perhaps they're trying to sabotage her campaign; Tenney is Tea Party and she challenged Hanna last time around, and casting her as a Hillary adversary would reflect badly on her in her district.