In the week since Donald Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19, a political action group called the Lincoln Project has used their massive social media presence to mock the U.S. president
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The group is made up of Republican insiders who oppose Trump's re-election.
"The target audience are independents who do not particularly like Trump, but are not inclined yet to vote for Biden because they either don't think that Trump is all that bad or they still don't believe that Biden is up for the job, " said Tina Nguyen, White House reporter for Politico.
"They're trying to make the Republican Party and Trump, and Trump's allies, look really, really bad, and Joe look good — or good by comparison."
In the lead up to the election, the Lincoln Project has targeted the president and those closest to him with caustic messages in an effort to ensure his ouster. Nguyen, who has written about the Lincoln Project, spoke with Day 6 host Brent Bambury about their approach.
Here is part of that conversation.
The people behind the Lincoln Project have deep roots in the Republican Party and their fingerprints are all over the party's recent past.… One of the co-founders is [former White House adviser] Kellyanne Conway's husband, George Conway. How did this group come together?
Primarily, they were a bunch of anti-Trump Republicans who met on Twitter. I'm not kidding. A lot of them just had never really known each other in person. They probably ran into each other at the same parties, but primarily they became aware of each other and their shared antipathy towards Donald Trump because they were all really vocal on Twitter.
George Conway, the reason that he became a big deal, was because he was someone so close to the White House and so close to a figure that is universally regarded as one of the loudest pro-Trump figures in his orbit. And Rick Wilson was a big conservative establishment political operative. So was Stuart Smith. So was Kurt Bardella.