Republican Jewish Coalition drops $3.5 million on TV ads for Trump in South Florida
Believing it can swing the results of the presidential election in the nation’s most populous swing state, the Republican Jewish Coalition is spending millions to run two TV ads backing President Donald Trump and knocking Democratic nominee Joe Biden in South Florida.
Starting Thursday, the ads — one attacking Biden and the other promoting Trump — will run in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, according to the organization. The tri-county area is home to more than 500,000 Jews, a reliable Democratic voting bloc that Republicans nevertheless believe they can push to the right in Florida, a state where even small shifts can yield big results.
“Only one candidate has stood with the Jewish community: President Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president in history,” a narrator says in one ad that touts a peace treaty brokered last month between Israel and the United Arab Emirates by the White House.
Another, tongue-in-cheek ad ties Biden to progressive Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, talking about the quartet as a package deal.
“Concerned Joe Biden isn’t liberal enough? This election only, a special offer: elect Joe Biden, get all his far-left friends too,” the narrator states.
Both ads are funded by the RJC Victory Fund, a political arm of the Republican Jewish Coalition. The RJC says it will spend $3.5 million on the ads, part of a broader $10 million pledge the organization made in August to help Trump win over Jewish voters in battleground states.
This story was originally published October 1, 2020 at 10:00 AM.
