GOP Vows To Take Back North Carolina: RNC's New Ad

RNC's New Freedom Ad


National Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele vowed to reclaim North Carolina for his party Monday and introduced a TV ad seeking to build support for the GOP brand in the state.

"Nancy Pelosi and President Obama and Harry Reid have certainly lost their mind when it comes to spending the people's money," Steele told about 60 supporters at an Embassy Suites hotel in Greensboro on Monday. "I don't think there is any doubt about that."

The TV ad will run for three weeks on the Fox affiliate in the Triad, Rob Christensen reports. The ad asks people who are concerned that "President Obama and Nancy Pelosi are experimenting with America" to contribute to the Republican Party.

Similar ads are being run in strong Republican markets in West Palm Beach, Fla., and Cincinnati and Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Okla. The ad features Steele talking to the camera and was produced by Mark Stephens, a Raleigh-based political consultant.

Steele told reporters that he is determined to win back North Carolina after the state surprised many by voting for Obama in 2008.

UPDATE: The Democratic National Committee has a response to the ad. Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman, said in a statement that the ad seeks to stoke fear in voters by calling health insurance reform a "massive government expansion" that "threatens our freedom."

"Republicans have no real ideas or agenda to help North Carolinians and are relying on scare tactics and fear mongering to raise money and defeat President Obama. North Carolina voters rejected these kind of politics when they sent President Obama to Washington,” Peters said.


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