President Donald Trump has consistently claimed that he enjoys a high approval rating. Recently, he tweeted and welcomed the 96% approval rating in the Republican Party. Over the course of his presidency, an average of 87% of Republicans have approved of Trump’s handling of the White House. But there are some dissenting voices in the Republican Party.
Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project with 2.5 million Twitter followers is an anti-Trump group made up of former Republican strategists George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson who started this group on December 17, 2019. George Conway, the Conservative lawyer is the most talked about the founder of the Lincoln Project as he is the husband of former Trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway. George Conway recently announced that he was leaving the group to spend more time with his family. Steve Schmidt led John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008 and John Weaver oversaw John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000. Rick Wilson is a media consultant. Through its social media campaign that includes videos and tweets, Project Lincoln attempts to target President Donald Trump and openly backs Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The group has raised $ 39.4 million from July to September and at least 15 billionaires have donated to the group as reported by Forbes. The group is named after Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president.
Republican voters against Trump
Republican Voters Against Trump is a political initiative that began in May 2020 with the purpose of producing a $ 10 million ad campaign focused on 100 testimonials from conservatives, Republicans, conservative voters, moderates, and people who voted for President Trump in 2016. Through these testimonies, college-educated white suburban voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona are targeted. By August 2020, Republican Voters against Trump had collected 500 testimonies.
43 students of Joe Biden
43 Alumni for Joe Biden is a political action committee created by the administration and campaign officials of former President of the United States, George W. Bush, and aims to influence Republican voters to vote for Joe Biden. The group’s advertising includes positive Joe Biden ads targeting states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, and Ohio.
The Bravery Project
The Bravery Project led by Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, is a group of conservatives and independents who say they are just “ordinary Americans speaking in our communities, having those awkward, uncomfortable conversations with our families, neighbors, and peers of work”. ”
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