More Americans see China as a major threat, and that is leading campaigns, especially Republican ones, to use them in their advertising. It’s even popping up in places like the Montana Senate race.
President Biden is meeting China’s President Xi on Wednesday — and more Americans are concerned with the threat posed by China than at any time in the last 40 years. As a result, China is popping up in lots of campaign ads lately.
Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley allies are trading allegations, for example. Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis, is running this ad in New Hampshire and Iowa, attacking Haley for bringing a Chinese company to South Carolina.
“China’s eyes and ears dangerously close,” a narrator says.
SFA Fund, a super PAC supporting Haley, is responding, targeting DeSantis and accusing him of lying about Haley’s record on China “because he’s losing.
