Trump's Transgender Ad About 'Misplaced Priorities,' Campaign Director Says
CNN's Dana Bash asked James Blair about the two television ads focusing on transgender rights issues. Trump's campaign and his allies spent tens of millions of dollars on the ads, which aired in battleground states and during NFL and college football games in the leadup to the November 5 election."Kamala is for they/them," one ad says. "Trump is for you.""The transgender community in the U.S.
is very, very small," Bash prefaced her questions. "It (the ads) got really outsized attention.""There are a lot of people who say that your campaign demonized the trans community as a way to present a wedge issue for, perhaps, men of color, suburban, and parents.
Why do you think—and I know you believe that those ads worked—Why do you think they worked?"Blair replied, "Well, first of all, we didn't demonize the transgender community.
In fact, [it] just really isn't even about transgender issues. This ad is really about misplaced priorities, and at the end of the day, it is a small minority of the country that thinks taxpayer dollars should be spent on that sort of thing."When you have a majority of the country who was saying very clearly that they don't believe the government is working for them, that they're worse off than they were four years ago, the country is on the wrong track and then to see a presidential candidate who is saying she's going to move this agenda forward, and that's how taxpayer dollars should be spent, it just doesn't comport with them.""They don't think the government is working for them," Blair continued.
