On Friday, a prominent liberal super PAC will launch an advertising campaign aimed at several GOP senators who will urge them to vote to condemn ex President Trump
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American Bridge 21st Century, through its non-profit affiliate group Bridge Project, will send digital ads and texts urging members of GOP senators to call their offices and urge them to vote to condemn Trump for his alleged role. which incites the deadly revolt of January 6 at the Capitol.
The plans, shared exclusively with The Hill, will be aimed at nine Republican senators: Lisa Murkowski
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In an announcement aimed specifically at Murkowski, who has become one of Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, the super PAC begins by saying, “Trump’s assault on law enforcement and our Capitol cannot be to forget ”, as it shows images of riots breaking into the building.
The 16-second video continues: “Our senators must do their job by holding Trump accountable for this January 6 violent uprising.”
The ad then gives viewers the phone number for Murkowski’s office in Washington, DC, and urges his constituents to “tell him he must condemn Trump.”
In a statement shared with The Hill, American Bridge President Bradley Beychok said, “To protect our democracy and our rule of law, Donald Trump must be held accountable.”
Beychok added, “We urge Republican senators to once again put their country ahead of their party and hold Trump accountable so that the insurgency we saw on January 6 does not happen again.”
Murkowski this week they told reporters in the midst of the arguments of the dismissal managers of the House before the Senate that the Democrats “they are giving a very strong case for a timeline that presented very clearly the words that were used when he [Trump] he used them, as he used to really build the rage, the violence we saw here in this Capitol. “
On Wednesday, Murkowski said after the second day of the impeachment trial, “After the American public sees the full story set forth here … I don’t see how Donald Trump could be re-elected to the presidency again.”
Meanwhile, Romney is seen as a likely vote in favor of the conviction, as he was the only Republican senator to vote to remove Trump from office after his first impeachment process last year.
Other moderate Republicans have criticized Trump for repeatedly making unsupported claims about a “so-called” election, though it’s unclear whether each of them will be moved to cross party lines and join Democrats in the vote to condemn. Trump.
After Democrats finished their arguments Thursday, the Trump team took center stage Friday, focusing heavily on his defense of the claim that Trump’s statements that led to the mafia attack were protected by the First Amendment.
Democrats would need 17 Republican senators to vote with them to condemn Trump, a result widely considered unlikely.