GOP is down to clown
Ad mocks The Squad ad
The Republican Party is rolling out an attack ad Monday targeting Bronx-Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other insurgent first-termers known as “The Squad” as dangerous “clowns” ahead of the 2020 congressional elections, The Post has learned.
The TV ads will be used first against Democrat Dan McCready, who is in a closely watched special congressional election on Sept. 10 in North Carolina against Republican Dan Bishop.
The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and the Bishop campaign are bankrolling the ad, which begins airing Monday, showing the faces of Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow firebrands, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, with their faces superimposed on inflatable clowns.
There are other Democratic figures depicted as clowns in the ad — including presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
But Ocasio-Cortez is front and center as the chief clown in the ad that slams Democrats as “liberals” and “socialists.”
“They hate President Trumprump more than they love America,”,” the narrator says in the 30-secondcond spot as the video pans firstt to Pelosi and then Ocasio-Cortez.ez.
The clip also shows Ocasio-ioCortez and fellow Squad memberber Omar as the narrator says Dem-mocrats are pushing for “openn borders and sanctuary cities.”
It then slams the Democrats for pushing “taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants” while showing the clown faces of Sanders and TlaibTlaib.
“They’re not funny. They’re downright scary. I’ll go to Congress and fight these clowns for you . . . it’s time to take the air out of these clowns,” Bishop says in the ad.
North Carolina’s 9th congressional district that borders South Carolina has been represented by a Republican since the 1960s.
President Trump won the district by 12 points in 2016.
Still, Democrats believe they have a shot at the seat after a ballot-fraud scandal tainted prior Republican candidate Mark Harris’ narrow victory in 2018, nullified the results and triggered the doover special election.
McCready, who was also the Democratic nominee in that discredited race, had trailed Harris by just 905 votes.