The Biden campaign released a new ad on Friday targeting former President Trump’s recent comments questioning his commitment to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies.
The 60-second digital ad is scheduled to air until Super Tuesday and targets voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The campaign says these states are home to more than 2.5 million Americans who identify as Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, or self-identified. Estonian.
“Mr. Trump wants to leave NATO. He even gave President Putin permission to attack America’s allies,” the ad says, calling the former president’s comments “disgraceful,” “weak,” and “un-American.” ” is called.
At a recent rally in South Carolina, President Trump told other NATO members that he would not protect them from attack if they were not contributing enough to meet the alliance’s defense spending goals. suggested that.
“You didn’t pay? Are you in arrears?” Trump said. “‘No, I’m not going to protect you. In fact, I’d encourage them to do whatever they want to do. You’ve got to pay the bills. You’ve got to pay the bills.’ ”
Mr. Biden himself has attacked Mr. Trump over these comments, and the NATO secretary general has warned that they undermine the security of alliance members.
Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement: “President Biden is right. President Trump’s attempts to placate dictators like Putin are ‘stupid,’ ‘shameful,’ ‘dangerous,’ and ‘. It’s un-American.” “The bottom line is that Donald Trump is loyal only to Donald Trump — not to our allies, certainly not to the American people. And to Putin and others. He thinks he will become stronger by following the dictator, but the American people know him for who he really is: a coward and a loser.”
The campaign ad was released hours after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison.
Russia’s Federal Prison Service said Navalny felt unwell after the walk and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived and crews tried to rehabilitate him but were unsuccessful.
Navalny is serving a 19-year sentence for extremism and was transferred from another prison to the country’s highest-security facility near the Arctic Circle in December. The “special regime” penal colony in the town of Harup, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow, is in a remote area known for its harsh winters.
Mr. Navalny has been imprisoned since returning to Russia in January 2021 after recovering from a poisoning, but Mr. Putin has blamed the attack on Mr. Navalny, who denies killing him with a nerve agent.
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