"I’m afraid to say this out loud…" pic.twitter.com/4OzFPjSWMX
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 3, 2020
It was the first time Joan Herbert had made her political views so public. She was nervous but said she was pleased the finished campaign advertisement got her pro-Trump message across so clearly.
Sitting in a darkened bedroom, the Pennsylvania mother of four delivered her message without speaking, flipping through a series of cue cards.
“I’m afraid to say this out loud,” reads one. “I won’t risk my children’s future with Biden.”
But as the Trump campaign ad circulated last month, the congratulatory phone calls from friends quickly turned to confused inquiries about whether she supported President Trump or Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“Some people called and asked, 'Which is the real one? Are you really a Biden supporter or a Trump supporter,'” she said.
Within hours of her video hitting social media, it had been picked up by Republican Voters Against Trump and edited to replace her cue cards with words attacking the president and his record.
“I voted for Trump in 2016,” one reads. “It was the biggest mistake of my life.”
The altered video remains available on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube despite Herbert’s efforts to have it removed. Its makers insist it is clearly a parody and, therefore, not designed to mislead.
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