A pro-Trump super PAC will launch a new television advertisement claiming that President Trump's presumptive Democratic opponent Joe Biden has failed to vet a representative number of Hispanic candidates to be his running mate.
"We came from all over," says a Spanish-speaking narrator in a new televised commercial from the Committee to Defend the President, a controversial political fundraising group. "We built skyscrapers and successful businesses. We risked everything, even our lives, to make America home. Latino Americans love our country. But that's not good enough for Joe Biden. He's interviewed thirteen candidates for vice president, but only one is Hispanic."
The spot features black and white images of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Julian Castro of Texas, and Sen. Kamala Harris of California, a rumored contender to run alongside Biden, and prominent Biden supporter and Republican strategist Ana Navarro, before Latino voters are pictured in color.
The ad continues, "Although Latinos make up more than one-sixth of the United States population and Latinos contribute more than two trillion dollars to our economy. So … why aren't Latinos good enough for Joe?"
The commercial will air nationally beginning Saturday on Spanish-language network Telemundo and in Arizona for one week.
In remarks to the Washington Examiner, executive director Chad Banghart explained that the committee sought to inform all voters that Trump could be a viable choice for them on Election Day.
On Friday, the committee said they had quadrupled their intended spending for spot, up to $600,000, and upped the total amount allocated to "non-Facebook platforms," including Twitter and YouTube, after the social media giant banned them from running ads on Facebook for 90 days on Thursday. Facebook leveled the charge after third-party fact-checkers said the pro-Trump group engaged in "repeated sharing" of false claims.
"This is in retaliation for Facebook's outright censorship of the Committee's message," a spokesperson for the committee said in a statement.
Twitter limits political advertising from political action committees, super PACs, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups. Asked to clarify their statement, the committee said they would instead use Twitter to conduct non-advertising outreach. Most of the group's digital budget has been allocated to internet-connected streaming services, Banghart said.
Biden's campaign has kept his running mate picks closely guarded, but he is expected to announce his choice next week. The Washington Examiner has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.
The committee's ad, which is narrated in Spanish, follows a back-and-forth between the Trump and Biden campaigns as each seeks to capture a winning share of the country's sizable Hispanic vote. The number of Latino voters nearly doubled in 2018 to 11.7 million from 6.8 million in 2014.
Trump won 28% of the Latino vote in 2016, according to an analysis of exit poll surveys conducted by Pew Research Center.
While Biden has polled better than Trump overall with Hispanic voters, a memo leaked last month from more than 90 field organizers for the Florida Democratic Party asserting their belief that Biden's team was "suppressing the Hispanic vote."
And one of Biden's vice presidential contenders has been all but written off in recent weeks after reports cast her as sympathetic to Cuba's Fidel Castro.
In states with large Latino populations, such as Arizona or Florida, where elections are typically decided by slim margins, appeals by Trump and Biden to Hispanic voters have each sought to portray their counterpart as sympathetic to far-left, anti-democratic governments.
At a campaign event on Thursday, Biden for President adviser Julie Chavez Rodriguez said the former vice president's success would require carrying Arizona.
Trump's polling among Latino voters has remained steady, and in Arizona, an estimated 1 in 4 Latino voters are expected to support him according to a recent poll by the New York Times and Siena College.
According to data firm Advertising Analytics, the Phoenix ad market saw the most political spending this week at $4.2 million.
In July, the Trump campaign seized on the Goya Foods controversy to cast Biden as an "extreme" socialist in the mold of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, targeting a Spanish-language ad to the Miami area. Florida is home to more than 400,000 Hispanics of Venezuelan origin.
This followed a South Florida attack by the Biden team in June after Trump said he would be open to meeting with Maduro and held reservations about recognizing Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate leader.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls in Florida has Biden leading Trump by 4 points and by 3.7 points in Arizona. Trump won both states over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Biden leads nationally by 6.4 points, according to RealClearPolitics's average.
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