Online sleuths linked the image to the country of Georgia, not the battleground state that Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are fighting to win in November.
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.
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):