The racist lie that Donald Trump and operating mate JD Vance have promoted about Haitian immigrants consuming folks’s pets might inspire sufficient voters towards the Republican Occasion to flip the Home to Democrats.
A brand new advert from the Congressional Black Caucus Political Motion Committee goals to do exactly that. The advert, titled “Our Unity is Our Strength,” contains a Haitian American lady offering narration.
“They want to tear us apart,” she explains because the advert highlights the newest smear and connects it to Trump’s historical past of bigoted rhetoric, most notably his 2018 reference to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shithole” international locations.
She concludes, “Remember, our unity is our strength. L’union fait la force.”
The French time period “L’union fait la force” interprets to “In Union there is Strength” and is featured on the coat of arms on the middle of the Haitian flag.
Trump has incessantly repeated the false declare that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, ate canine and cats. Following Trump’s popularization of the hoax, bomb threats have been made towards faculties and authorities amenities within the city.
Over the weekend, Vance informed CNN, “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”
“Every day between now and Election Day, Haitian Americans are going to hear a message of unity from the party of progress, inclusion, and the American dream—that is the Democratic Party,” Rep. Gregory Meeks, chair of CBC PAC, stated in a press release saying the advert marketing campaign, as reported by NBC Information.
CBC PAC stated it might function the advert in a five-figure marketing campaign in New York’s 4th Congressional District, which is held by Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, who gained the race by lower than 4 proportion factors in 2022. The district additionally most popular Biden in 2020 by practically 15 factors.
Earlier than D’Esposito, the seat had been held by Democrats from 1997 till 2023, when Rep. Kathleen Rice retired.
The seat is at present rated by the Cook dinner Political Report as certainly one of 24 “tossup” seats essential to figuring out the social gathering accountable for the Home after the autumn elections. Presently, Republicans have 220 seats within the Home to Democrats’ 211 (there are 4 vacancies) after the disappointing outcomes of the 2022 midterm elections, the place a predicted “red wave” ended up turning into a “red trickle.”
Former city supervisor Laura Gillen is the Democrat difficult D’Esposito, in a rematch of their 2022 race.
“I’m outraged that the Trump campaign and several Congressional Republicans, including here in New York, are amplifying racist conspiracies against the Haitian-American community,” she wrote on Sept. 10. “Our Haitian neighbors here in Nassau County are an integral part of our community, and should be celebrated—not ostracized. Anthony D’Esposito’s silence is terrible—he should hold his colleagues accountable for these awful conspiracies.”
D’Esposito endorsed Trump’s marketing campaign in February.
D’Esposito was additionally not too long ago criticized by the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee for failing to sentence Trump after he traveled with 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer to the 9/11 memorial in New York Metropolis.
In a ballot launched on Sept. 12 by GQR for the pro-Democrat Home Majority PAC, Gillen held a 50% to 47% lead over D’Esposito.
