TV AD: Trump's coronavirus failures

As of today, over 1 million Americans have become sick and over 58,000 have lost their lives—the majority in the month of April. Dear MoveOn member, MoveOn has just launched the first in a series of digital and television ads targeting key voters in battleground states that tell the real story of Donald Trump's abject failure in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. [Click here to watch this powerful ad.]( In February, as Trump was wasting critical days by refusing to follow recommendations from intelligence and public health officials throughout his administration, he told his supporters at a rally not to worry about COVID-19, because "It looks like by April ... when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away." As of today, over 1 million Americans have become sick and over 58,000 have lost their lives—the majority in the month of April.1 Trump's total failure to prepare for and respond to the pandemic started in January, and his claims have only become more unhinged since, culminating in the terrifying suggestion last week that patients be injected with household disinfectants to kill the virus.2 Compounding these incomprehensible claims have been Trump and his administration's utter lack of leadership to get Americans tested and to provide personal protective equipment and lifesaving machines like ventilators to frontline workers, forcing states into a bidding war; Trump's support of fringe movements to reopen the country far before it is safe to do so; and the administration's focus on protecting corporate bottom lines instead of the people most impacted by the crisis. And yet, an analysis of Trump's press conferences since March 9 showed that Trump has praised his own response more than 600 times, and now his cronies at the Republican National Committee have dumped $1 million into an ad campaign praising his handling of the crisis.3,4 We cannot let Trump and his billionaire backers control the narrative and spread even more disinformation to voters. Which is why we are running our ads in the critical battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida. Specifically, MoveOn's analytics team is working to target our truthful messages to "high-potential voters"—new voters and voters of color who are often ignored by candidates but who have the power to tip the election if we can inspire them to cast a ballot. [{NAME}, will you watch our 60-second ad and chip in $5 a month to help us expand our hard-hitting ad campaign to even more battleground states and make sure that millions of high-potential voters see our message before going to the polls in November?]( In the same analysis that found Trump's more than 600 instances of self-congratulation, reporters discovered that conversely, he had expressed empathy or called for national unity only 160 times.5 While tens of thousands of Americans were dying, hundreds of thousands were becoming ill, and tens of millions were losing their jobs, Trump was most concerned with patting himself on the back and protecting his billionaire friends. We cannot allow voters to forget that when they go to the polls this November in what will be the most consequential election of our lifetimes. [Please, watch our ad and chip in $5 a month to help us keep our ads up and running so we can fight back against Trump and the GOP's indifference to the human toll of his failure.]( Thanks for all you do. –Olga, Chris, Mary, Gabi, and the rest of the team Sources: 1. "United States Coronavirus Cases," Worldometer, accessed April 28, 2020 [ 2. "Trump's Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the 'Very Stable Genius,'" The New York Times, April 26, 2020 [ 3. "260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus," The New York Times, April 26, 2020 [ 4. "RNC launches digital ads praising Trump on coronavirus," Politico, April 10, 2020 [ 5. "260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus," The New York Times, April 26, 2020 [ Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us? [Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.]( [No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, . Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to {NAME} on April 29, 2020. To change your email address or update your contact info, [click here](. To remove yourself from this list, [click here](.