A day after Donald Trump expressed “regret” over certain things he has said “in the heat of debate,” his campaign today launched a dark and dreary anti-immigration ad in four battleground states.
“The new ad provides a stark comparison between Hillary Clinton’s reality in which Americans are victims of the rigged system in Washington that compromises our borders, jeopardizes our jobs, and flouts our laws, and Mr. Trump’s vision for our country, in which we secure our borders and put American jobs and safety first,” said a statement from the campaign.
The $4.8 million ad buy will air in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Republican-leaning North Carolina. Trump is behind Clinton in all of those states in recent polling. He is not advertising in Virginia where Clinton has opened up a double digit lead.
FACT CHECKING:
The ad averages about one incorrect fact every four seconds.
- The system is not rigged against Americans. Ask the chief election officials in the battleground states, almost all of them Republican, if there is any evidence of cyber tampering of election machines or deliberate malfeasance. The answer is no.
- There is no flood of Syrian refugees coming into the U.S. The Obama Administration had hoped to resettle around 10,000 refugees by this fall, but that is not going to happen.
- Many undocumented immigrants pay Social Security without receiving any benefits. The government has collected about $12 billion in payroll taxes which is going unclaimed.
- Hillary Clinton’s immigration plan will not “open the borders” as claimed. In fact, her plan to develop a “pathway to citizenship” is far more conservative than the amnesty bill supported and signed by former president Ronald Reagan.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon was quick to tweet criticism about the new ad:
Also, new ad by Donald “I will never lie to you” Trump repeats oft-debunked lie that Clinton supports “open borders”https://t.co/ToypClCshO
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 19, 2016
Trump’s super PAC is also spending more than $2.5 million over the next two weeks in Florida and Ohio. The NRA is spending a little over $1 million combined in North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania.