A prominent liberal super PAC on Friday will launch an advertising campaign targeting several Republican senators, urging them to vote to condemn ex President Trump
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American Bridge 21st Century, through its nonprofit affiliate group Bridge Project, will send digital ads and texts urging constituents of Republican senators to call their offices and urge them to vote to condemn Trump for his alleged role in inciting mortal turmoil of January 6 Capitol.
The plans, shared exclusively with The Hill, will target nine Republican senators: Lisa Murkowski
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In an ad specifically targeted at Murkowski, who has become one of Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, the super PAC begins by saying, “The Trump-led attack on law enforcement and our Capitol cannot be overlooked” as it shows images of protesters breaking into the building.
The 16-second video continues, “Our senators need to do their job, holding Trump accountable for this violent January 6 uprising.”
The ad then gives viewers the phone number for Murkowski’s Washington, DC, office, urging her constituents to “say she 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, at least once, put their country in front of their party and hold Trump accountable so that the uprising we saw on January 6 will never happen again.”
Murkowski this week told reporters amid arguments from the House’s impeachment managers before the Senate that Democrats “are making a very strong case for a timeline that exposed the words that were used very clearly when he [Trump] he used them, as he used to really build the anger, the violence that we saw here in this Capitol. “
On Wednesday, Murkowski said after the second day of the impeachment trial: “After the American public sees the whole story presented 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 sentencing, as he was the only Republican senator to vote to remove Trump from office after his first impeachment trial last year.
Other moderate Republicans have criticized Trump for repeatedly making unsubstantiated claims of a “rigged” election, although it is unclear whether each will be moved to cross the party lines and join Democrats in the vote to condemn Trump.
After Democrats ended their arguments on Thursday, the Trump team took center stage Friday, largely focusing its defense on the claim that Trump’s remarks that led to the crowd’s 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.