ICYMI: Breitbart – McCrory Called Out For Past Praise Of Fauci

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle published an exclusive report on a new Club for Growth Action ad highlighting Pat McCrory’s past praise of Dr. Anthony Fauci and comments in support of mandatory masking. Club for Growth Action also announced a more than $10 million TV and digital media reservation in the primary.

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Exclusive — Club for Growth [Action] Begins Massive Pro-Budd North Carolina Senate Blitz with Brutal Hit Slamming McRory for Fauci Praise

By Matthew Boyle, Breitbart

Club for Growth Action, a top outside conservative group supporting the President Donald Trump-endorsed Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate primary, has launched a brutal ad slamming former Gov. Pat McCrory for past praise of Dr. Anthony Fauci and masks, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Part of a forthcoming $10 million campaign of television and digital ads in the final two months of the race—literally salting the earth in the Tar Heel State in the home stretch to seal the deal for Budd—the ad pulls up a radio interview McCrory did with Fauci praising the controversial doctor and urging masks.

“It’s hard to recognize somebody with their face behind a mask but when Pat McCrory takes his off the truth stares you right in the face,” a narrator says at the beginning of the ad before it cuts to McCrory adulating Fauci and masks.

“Dr. Fauci, this is former Gov. Pat McCrory—thank you for your public service,” McCrory says in the audio clip unearthed in the Club for Growth [Action] ad.

“Thank you, sir, thank you for saying that,” Fauci replied.

Then it cuts to another part of the interview where McCrory agrees with Fauci on incessant masking.

“Wearing masks, I agree with you,” McCrory told Fauci. “I’m a big advocate of wearing masks. And by the way, I wish we would have done it much earlier—all of us.”

Fauci replied by praising McCrory’s push for masks. “You know, governor, you got that right,” Fauci said.

The narrator ends the ad by saying McCrory is “no conservative” but instead is a “Fauci-loving fraud.”

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The Club for Growth [Action]’s political arm has already spent $4 million backing Budd in the primary to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), and this ad is part of what amounts to $10 million more in digital and television ads the group plans to spend between now and the mid-May primary.

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Trump’s endorsement of Budd shocked a lot of observers early last year when he waded into the primary that early to pick the Freedom Caucus congressman because McCrory was so high in polling back then—but Budd has closed the gap and it seems to be a two-man race in the final weeks. Former Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) is also running but performing below the other two candidates in the polls.