Presidential campaigns spend millions on messaging.
But one of the best Harris-Walz plugs that I’ve seen so far isn’t a big bucks TV ad. It’s a low-budget, nearly 10-minute YouTube video titled “He thinks we’re stupid!!”
“He” is Donald Trump.
“All Donald Trump knows is how to take advantage of working people,” says Tennessee Brando on camera. “And from day one, it’s truly baffled me how that working people in my part of the world could continue to fall for this guy and honestly think that he has their best interests at heart.”
Brando the YouTuber bills himself as an “Appalachian Progressive, Medias Touch contributor, singer, songwriter.”
I’m 74 and not a big YouTube fan, so I’d never heard of Brando before UAW 862 retiree Kirk Gillenwaters texted me the video. “I like his down-to-earth attitude,” said the accompanying message from Kirk, president of the Kentucky branch of the Alliance for Retired Americans.
Brando punctuated his message with clips of Walz’s Labor Day speech to a big union crowd in Milwaukee. Harris’s running mate “is firing on all cylinders,” according to Brando. “He’s the very energy we needed so desperately.”
Here’s where Brando nailed Trump for his long-running con job on working people: “He’s done absolutely nothing for them and he’s never one time walked in their shoes. This guy has never once helped out a neighbor. Do you think he ever went over and mowed his neighbor’s grass for free when the neighbor was going through an operation? Do you think he ever took the neighbor to a doctor’s appointment? Do you think he ever went and got groceries for his neighbor or helped someone out?
“When has he ever just done every day, day-to-day things that working people do? When has he ever punched a time clock and had to work from the bottom to the top?
“He didn’t. He started on top. But what you’ve got to remember is that the only job where you start on top is digging a hole and Donald Trump has been digging a hole his entire life and hopefully come November it’s going to be the final act of digging that hole and he’ll be out of the political arena for good and … we’ll be past him and his ridiculous politics of fear.”
No high-powered, well-paid PR pro could put it better.
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