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.



[ [link removed] ]Click here to watch this powerful ad and then consider
chipping in $5 a month to help us expand our ad buy into
more swing states and keep it running for as long as it takes to combat
Trump and the GOP's avalanche of lies.





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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.



[ [link removed] ]John, 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.



[ [link removed] ]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
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2. "Trump's Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the 'Very Stable
Genius,'" The New York Times, April 26, 2020
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3. "260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus," The New
York Times, April 26, 2020
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4. "RNC launches digital ads praising Trump on coronavirus," Politico,
April 10, 2020
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5. "260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus," The New
York Times, April 26, 2020
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by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage,
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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?



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