Trump campaign ad in Georgia (the state), mistakenly depicts country of Georgia

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Source: USA Today

Published 5:37 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2024 | Updated 5:37 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2024


With only six weeks left until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are flooding voters with ads and rallies in several battleground states, including Georgia - which Trump lost to President Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in the 2020 election.

Before Biden dropped out on July 21, Trump’s campaign was so confident of victory in Georgia that it had spent less than $3 million on ad buys, according to Reuters. Since Harris’s emergence, the campaign and an affiliated group responded by sinking more than $30 million into advertising in the state, outspending the Harris campaign through August.

“ATTENTION GEORGIA: I’m humbly asking you to stop what you’re doing and check your voter registration status,” read one Trump ad circulated online in the Peach State. “Only a handful of votes will decide this election. We can stop inflation, secure our borders, lower taxes, and make America Great Again!” The backdrop of the ad showed a beautiful mountain range with fields of white flowers and low-hanging clouds.

The only problem? The photo in the ad features Georgia, a country that borders Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan — not the battleground swing state. Social media users matched the ad with a stock photo of the Caucasus mountains, which span the northern part of the country. Georgia, a former Soviet Union republic, sits at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The photo’s caption reads, “Cloudy morning view of the mountain hill in Upper Svanetia, Georgia, Europe.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/24/trump-ad-georgia-mistakes-country-for-state/75359672007/

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Ammar Moussa
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Yikes.

The Trump campaign is running ads in Georgia featuring a picture from....the country of Georgia.

Top notch operation.
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8:06 AM · Sep 23, 2024

[benfranklin1776]

1. "Russia always Russia"

Rather than Georgia our Peach State “always being on what’s left of his ‘mind,”” the homeland of his Daddy Vlad dominates his psychotic thinking. The puppet strings from Moscow are long! 😝

[Irish_Dem]

2. Russians helping Trump with his campaign are having some fun.

Leaving their fingerprints on the crime of election interference.

Just like Putin always leaves his calling card at his crime scenes.
To let us know he did the crime. And he can get away with it.

[Martin68]

3. Morons. I'm sure that will go over big in the Great State of Georgia.

[Bayard]

4. They learned geography at trump University