Anthony Fauci has been a GOP target for nearly two years, as the party cast the president’s chief medical adviser as a villain for pandemic-era policies. Now he’s emerging as a star in Republican campaign commercials.
Fauci’s political value as a target has also grown as the GOP has seized on the pandemic to knock President Joe Biden for his policies. On the campaign trail, Biden had pledged to end the pandemic. Now, after the Omicron variant spiraled out of control over the holidays, Republicans point to it as— despite Trump’s well-documented failures in his own handling of the response.
Yet Fauci’s high-profile role as the face of the federal government’s coronavirus response efforts have made him especially inviting to GOP candidates looking to energize the party’s grassroots — to some elements of the base, Fauci is a pandemic-era bogeyman.
“Let’s fire Fauci and take back our freedoms,” Ohio Republican Senate candidate Jane Timken said in an ad titled “Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Jim Pillen got in on the action, too.. “Biden is as lost as last year’s Easter egg. And Fauci? Don’t get me started.”mentioned Fauci in a fundraising text on Jan. 13, after the Supreme Court blocked Biden’s vaccine or test mandate for large employers. “Don’t let Fauci CANCEL your freedom again!” the text read.“DO YOU BELIEVE DR.
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