The ads were produced in St. Petersburg. It’s an understandable mistake.
Tldr: Ad used landscape photos of Georgia.
The country of Georgia has a Four Seasons Landscaping too?
In fairness, I could count on Captain Hook’s fingers the amount of Trump supporters who could reliably point to the Republic of Georgia on a map, or even know that it exists. Not even Trump could.
Paywall.
tl;dr:
Donald Trump’s campaign accidentally used an image of the country of Georgia in a digital ad intended for voters in the U.S. state of Georgia. The ad featured a scenic backdrop of vast mountain ranges, which online users quickly identified as the Caucasus Mountains from the European nation, rather than any landscape found in the U.S. The ad urged Georgia voters to check their voter registration status, with a message from Trump emphasizing how crucial their votes were in the upcoming election.
“ATTENTION GEORGIA: I’m humbly asking you to stop what you’re doing and check your voter registration status,” the ad stated. However, instead of highlighting the battleground state, the image depicted the wrong “Georgia,” causing a humorous mix-up.
The ad had been running on Facebook since September 10, with around $6,000 spent before it was removed on Monday after being featured in the Politically Georgia newsletter. The campaign did not provide a response regarding the mistake, but aides from Vice President Kamala Harris’ camp were quick to mock the error. Harris’ deputy spokesperson, Ammar Moussa, sarcastically commented on the blunder, calling it a “top-notch operation.”
https://archive.ph/{whatever URL}Much easier than whining “payWalLED” and actually performs a useful task.
You could have actually done the thing and shared the link instead of that annoying animated GIF that won’t stop. We get it, you’re so clever.
Here’s the link you couldn’t be arsed to provide: https://archive.ph/gPlLT
EDIT: Looks like it doesn’t get past the paywall after all. Oh well, the more you know …
Give someone a fish, feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish, feed them for life.
Plus, I don’t want to reward the behavior of whining “paywalled”
Paywalled
There’s a paywall, but let me guess- Somebody made a print ad with an image of the rolling countryside in Georgia, when they meant to use a photo of the rolling countryside of Georgia.
There exist plenty of reasons to hate Trump and conservatives. It’s a bit of a blessing that they’re so incredibly stupid. But this is the sort of mistake I would make, so it feels like a glass houses situation.
As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.
But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.
I’d normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don’t know there’s another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.
It certainly belies a lack of experience, attention to detail, and/or competence.
On the one hand, it’s a multi-million dollar campaign for President of the United States.
On the other hand, their target audience is not going to give one flying FUCK that the picture is wrong.
Georgia is an important state. Any vote that is swayed by calling this out may be important
Georgian (US) here. The state has nowhere that looks even slightly like the landscape pictured in the ad.
This is about as close as we get (note how the mountains are forested, not grassy):
Canadian Conservatives did pretty much the same thing with an advert featuring pictures from all over the world with one of the first statements being “We don’t recognize Canada anymore” or something
