David Sirota, editor-at-large of Jacobin, said that efforts by the anti-Trump ground the Lincoln Project to swing GOP votes away from President Trump were “an epic failure.”
Sirota told Hill.TV’s “Rising” that the group was actually trying to secure a Joe Biden presidency with a GOP-controlled senate, as opposed to actually moving GOP voters towards Democrats.
“In a sense, they went to liberals and said ‘give us money to help us defeat Republicans, that’s our job.’” Sirota said. “So, when Donald Trump actually increases his share of the Republican vote in 2020 versus 2016 when there wasn’t the Lincoln Project, that’s just statistically an epic failure.”
Sirota further said that the group raised more money for “ineffective ads and expensive stunts” than the Democratic party spent to try and win key state legislatures. He noted that those losses could change the course of Congress for the next decade.
“So imagine if that $67 million had gone into winning state legislatures, it could be a totally different ball game for the next ten years,” Sirota said. “But, instead it went to Republican operatives at the Lincoln Project, to produce YouTube videos that made MSNBC-watching liberals feel smug, but didn’t actually move any voters.”
The Lincoln Project churned out multiple ads against the president and Republicans that backed him. Among its founders is George Conway, husband of former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
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