Analysis: Trump campaign’s released an ad this week employing the standard campaign-ad trope of citing news reports. But they weren't really news reports.
The point isn’t really that people are supposed to go and look up what the Decaturville News said about child banning. Instead, it’s to demonstrate to viewers that theylook up the news report and see just what that nefarious Sen. McComb was up to. That little marker sourcing a claim to the news acts as a sort of “you can trust us on this” shorthand.
Which is one reason that it was odd to see, in a new ad from former president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, that a number of quotes were sourced to the news media. Isn’t this the guy who tells his audience that the news media is a bunch of liars all the time? But then, of course, you dig into the citations a little further and you see that they’re often not what the ad makes them out to be.
Over the course of this minute-long spot, there are six citations of the news media. One is an actual news article. Two are quotes from former Trump administration officials. Three are opinions or analyses.by Chris Cillizza. It focuses on Trump’s efforts to appeal to the conservative part of the Republican Party by pledging to appoint antiabortion judges — and on Trump’s own flip-flopping on the issue.
The ad used this citation to prove that “they” — the elites, etc. — “already know he’ll crush Biden” in a 2024 contest between the two. Most polls consistently show that Trump and Biden
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