Welcome to our community

Be apart of something great, join today!

Register Log in

2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

  • Thread starter Thread starter nycfan
  • Start date Start date
  • Replies: 8K
  • Views: 285K
  • Politics 

Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country​

Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars on the ads, part of an attempt to help them win over suburban female voters.

www.nytimes.com

Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country

Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars on the ads, part of an attempt to help them win over suburban female voters.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

“… Republicans are returning to a message that was tried, mostly unsuccessfully, in the 2022 midterms, as they attempt to motivate their base and curb their losses with female voters repelled by the party’s stance on abortion.

…
In Ohio since the start of September, every ad about Senator Sherrod Brown from the leading Senate Republican super PAC has touched on transgender topics, such as accusing him of “allowing transgender biological males in girls’ sports.” Mr. Brown is one of the nation’s most vulnerable Democratic incumbents.

In Montana, five ads have deployed similar lines about transgender women in sports and bathrooms as Republicans press the case that Senator Jon Tester, another endangered Democrat up for re-election, is too liberal for the heavily Republican state. …”
 
(Cont’d)

“… Privately, though, Democratic strategists concede that the transgender attacks are taking a toll in some races. The most aired Trump ad in recent weeks was rated as one of his campaign’s more effective in September in some Democratic testing, according to results reviewed by The Times.

…
Attacks on what Mr. Trump calls “transgender insanity” have reliably been one of his loudest applause lines at his rallies. But now Mr. Trump has shifted significant resources to move that message far beyond his most fervent fans.

In the last three weeks, Mr. Trump’s campaign alone has spent more than $15.5 million on two television ads that resurface comments Ms. Harris made in 2019 describing her support for policies that “every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access” to gender-affirming surgery.

…
Republican strategists said the focus on transgender women and girls in sports had been particularly effective with a key group of voters the party has hemorrhaged support from in recent years: college-educated suburban women.

“One of the things you see in the focus groups is the moms get really visibly angry on this issue,” said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who works for Mr. Trump and other Republican campaigns. “It’s a fairness issue. They don’t want their daughters to lose a scholarship, and they don’t want them to get hurt.”

Those are some of the recurring themes in the ads. …”
 
StrangePackage said:
Not that it will matter to you, but for anyone else to may be curious -

Once the state has a prisoner in its custody, it is responsible for providing for that prisoners needs, including medical care.

Gender reassignment can be recommended as a treatment for cases of severe gender dysphoria, which has been demonstrated in the relevant medical literature to have high success rates in alleviating the major symptoms of gender dysphoria, including depression and suicidal ideation.

If you want to, you can make an argument for not providing prisoners with medical care. But I don't know what the objection to providing this medical care would be, and how it would be different than other prescribed treatments, other than naked transphobia.

Or are you going to pretend to be worried about the sanctity of women's prison intermural sports?
Click to expand...
So what you’re saying is, you support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners?
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
So what you’re saying is, you support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners?
Click to expand...
I’d love to see some data on how often this actually happens and how small the cost is if it does.

I’d be willing to bet it’s a fraction of a percent of the federal government’s paperclip budget.
 
nycfan said:
(Cont’d)

“… Privately, though, Democratic strategists concede that the transgender attacks are taking a toll in some races. The most aired Trump ad in recent weeks was rated as one of his campaign’s more effective in September in some Democratic testing, according to results reviewed by The Times.

…
Attacks on what Mr. Trump calls “transgender insanity” have reliably been one of his loudest applause lines at his rallies. But now Mr. Trump has shifted significant resources to move that message far beyond his most fervent fans.

In the last three weeks, Mr. Trump’s campaign alone has spent more than $15.5 million on two television ads that resurface comments Ms. Harris made in 2019 describing her support for policies that “every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access” to gender-affirming surgery.

…
Republican strategists said the focus on transgender women and girls in sports had been particularly effective with a key group of voters the party has hemorrhaged support from in recent years: college-educated suburban women.

“One of the things you see in the focus groups is the moms get really visibly angry on this issue,” said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who works for Mr. Trump and other Republican campaigns. “It’s a fairness issue. They don’t want their daughters to lose a scholarship, and they don’t want them to get hurt.”

Those are some of the recurring themes in the ads. …”
Click to expand...
Thanks for sharing. And yes, it’s easy to see why this ad Trump has been running would be effective in the suburbs.
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
So what you’re saying is, you support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners?
Click to expand...
What I’m saying is that almost every person who is applauding this at a Trump rally has never even seen a transgender person. It is an irrelevant aspect of life for the vast majority of the population yet MAGA treats it like it’s the most important issue facing our country today. You are being manipulated.
 
RockyMtnHoo said:
I’d love to see some data on how often this actually happens and how small the cost is if it does.

I’d be willing to bet it’s a fraction of a percent of the federal government’s paperclip budget.
Click to expand...
Totally agree. But giving that as the response to my question reads very similarly to the same type of non-answer response Democrats give when they get asked where in a pregnancy they draw the line on elective abortions.

“It rarely happens, so what’s the big deal” isn’t good enough. A lot of really bad stuff is rare.
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
Totally agree. But giving that as the response to my question reads very similarly to the same type of non-answer response Democrats give when they get asked where in a pregnancy they draw the line on elective abortions.

“It rarely happens, so what’s the big deal” isn’t good enough. A lot of really bad stuff is rare.
Click to expand...
What? The majority of posters here agree with Roe.
 
I'll be completely honest. Perhaps the thing that I appreciate the most out of today's Republicans is how deeply open and vulnerable they allow themselves to be in letting the rest of us know how piss-down-your-leg-shit-your-drawers terrified they are at all times of 39 week elective abortions, illegal immigrants, and transgender people all jumping out from behind the nearest bush and forcing them to announce their pronouns. You have to admire that kind of honesty and humility to be able to face down those fears every moment of every day and keep soldiering on in this hellscape broken country in which we live. Thank you, brave Republican foot soldiers, for protecting us all from rampaging third-trimester mothers who want their babies ripped from their wombs and from the transgender illegal alien inmates populating our prisons and draining our public coffers.
 
CFordUNC said:
I'll be completely honest. Perhaps the thing that I appreciate the most out of today's Republicans is how deeply open and vulnerable they allow themselves to be in letting the rest of us know how piss-down-your-leg-shit-your-drawers terrified they are at all times of 39 week elective abortions, illegal immigrants, and transgender people all jumping out from behind the nearest bush and forcing them to announce their pronouns. You have to admire that kind of honesty and humility to be able to face down those fears every moment of every day and keep soldiering on in this hellscape broken country in which we live. Thank you, brave Republican foot soldiers, for protecting us all from rampaging third-trimester mothers who want their babies ripped from their wombs and from the transgender illegal alien inmates populating our prisons and draining our public coffers.
Click to expand...
Remember…these are the problems “real” flag waving Americans are worried about.
 
RockyMtnHoo said:
Remember…these are the problems “real” flag waving Americans are worried about.
Click to expand...
Man alive, I'll tell ya. If this is the stuff these people obsess over when we are living in one of the greatest times of economic prosperity in the history of our country, low crime, and relative worldwide peace, you've got to wonder what they're going to become transfixed by when the shit actually hits the fan one day.
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
Totally agree. But giving that as the response to my question reads very similarly to the same type of non-answer response Democrats give when they get asked where in a pregnancy they draw the line on elective abortions.

“It rarely happens, so what’s the big deal” isn’t good enough. A lot of really bad stuff is rare.
Click to expand...


It’s definitely a helluva lot more rare than say… school shootings… but we wouldn’t want to pubs to care about actual issues.
 
Is someone spraying spittle all over this thread? Or is the thread broke? I keep seeing a bolded title but few new posts.
 
Enigma94 said:
What I’m saying is that almost every person who is applauding this at a Trump rally has never even seen a transgender person. It is an irrelevant aspect of life for the vast majority of the population yet MAGA treats it like it’s the most important issue facing our country today. You are being manipulated.
Click to expand...
Agree with the general theme of this post but have a quibble that makes the message even more powerful, imo. I would wager that the majority of the population (even MAGAs) has encountered a transgender person at some point in their lives... and they didn't even notice. As you said, the transgender community has zero impact on the vast majority of Americans and it's abhorrent that bigotry toward this population is a key plank of the Republican party platform. I guess it makes effective fear porn for those afraid of their own shadows though.

The only people that this issue affects in any significant way is the transgender community itself. Everyone should be free to be who they are without fear of prejudice and discrimination. I have a close family member who is transgender and she didn't feel comfortable coming out until she was almost 30 years old. I hate that for her and it shouldn't have to be that way.
 
HeelingAg said:
Is someone spraying spittle all over this thread? Or is the thread broke? I keep seeing a bolded title but few new posts.
Click to expand...
Not having the same issue. What is the last post you see prior to your post?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top