Joe Biden’s First Texas Ad Talks About Masks, Not Trump – By Susan Milligan (US News) / July 14 2020
The Democrat’s ad buy in the Lone Star State is a sign of the increasingly tenuous grip Republicans have on Texas.
Joe Biden is going on the air in reliably red Texas with a TV ad focusing on fighting the coronavirus, a sign of the increasing competitiveness of a state that has been a GOP stronghold for decades.
The 60-second ad does not mention President Donald Trump or even urge Texans to cast a ballot for the former vice president this fall. Instead, it sounds more like a public service announcement by someone who is already president.
“I’m thinking of all of you today across Texas,” Biden says in the ad, which opens with a view of the small, desert town of Marfa in West Texas and features Texans in cowboy hats and masks. “The virus is tough, but Texas is tougher,” the presumptive Democratic nominee says in the Lone Star State ad – different versions of which are set to run in Florida, Arizona and North Carolina
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