Democrat group betting on anti-ICE fear in new campaign ad targeting young men

FIRST ON FOX: A fundraising radical dedicated to helping Democrats flip Republican seats is releasing a acheronian caller advertisement it hopes volition assistance the near win implicit young men up of the 2026 races.

The Progress Action Fund has gained attraction for its risqué viral ads featuring a fictional "Republican congressman" who invades backstage moments successful bedrooms, bathrooms and hospitals to enforce alleged blimpish policies, specified arsenic stopping sex, termination oregon denying attraction to Medicare patients. 

The caller clip features a mates connected a date, comprised of a White antheral with blonde hair, portion the pistillate has darker tegument and achromatic hair.

"I had a truly bully clip today," the antheral says successful the video. The pistillate begins to respond, "I did too," earlier they are some forcefully restrained by masked agents, and the pistillate is dragged away.

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The Progress Action Fund is releasing a caller advertisement starring a fictional "Republican congressman" targeting a mates connected a date. (Progress Action Fund)

A dependable says off-screen arsenic the mates is being dragged apart, "She's coming with us."

"What are you talking about? Who are you?" the antheral yells.

Then, an older White antheral with achromatic hairsbreadth steps onto the screen, "I'm your Republican congressman. Now that we're successful charge, we're rounding up illegals."

The antheral yells arsenic the pistillate continues to shriek, "She was calved here, she's a citizen."

"I don't care. She looks similar 1 of them," the "Republican congressman" responds. "But don't worry, erstwhile she's successful situation successful El Salvador, she'll person tons of company."

The advertisement ends with a notation to President Donald Trump speaking to El Salvadorian President Nayyib Bukele astatine the White House earlier this year, suggesting helium was unfastened to sending "homegrown" criminals to the overseas country's prisons alongside non-American deportees.

Joe Jacobson, an Obama medication alumnus who founded and runs Progress Action Fund, told Fox News Digital that his PAC's investigating shows the advertisement volition beryllium potent with young men.

The man, who is White with blonde hair, yells successful the advertisement that the pistillate helium is with is simply a citizen. (Progress Action Fund)

"We recovered that aft seeing the ad, young men – you know, I'm 31 and our people demo is to triumph backmost young men successful 2026 aft they flipped to Trump by 30 points – and what we recovered is that it moves the needle for Democrats, making young men nether 30 enactment Democrats and presumption them favorably, by astir 4 points," Jacobson said successful an interview.

"And that's not that's not easy, fixed the Democratic Party hasn't recovered a connection for young men, and reaching them and engaging them."

Republicans and the White House dismissed the advertisement arsenic "fear-mongering."

Democrats person been wrestling to find a cohesive connection to voters aft the 2024 predetermination – peculiarly young men, who narrowly went to Trump aft erstwhile President Joe Biden won the demographic successful 2020.

However, Jacobson said ads that acceptable tones enactment Progress Action Fund's latest clip would beryllium potent.

"If you're a young man, and you're dating oregon looking for a girlfriend, the past happening you privation is for, you know, concealed police, ICE agents coming successful and taking distant your woman that's an American national conscionable due to the fact that she looks a Latino idiosyncratic oregon whoever the ICE officials are racially profiling," Jacobson said.

The "congressman" says the pistillate "looks similar 1 of them." (Progress Action Fund)

He pointed retired that migration has been a cardinal contented for Republican platforms for years – and said this time, Democrats would prehend that momentum fixed Trump's harsh policies.

"This has ever been an issue, and Donald Trump has weaponized migration adjacent more. And, you know, helium has immoderate mandate. He told radical that helium wanted to deport criminals who are breaking the law, convulsive criminals, who are immigrants, and radical are down for that. Democrats are down for that, too," Jacobson said.

"But helium does not person a mandate for deporting radical who are, you know, moving astatine hotels, connected farms oregon car shops."

It comes amid protests crossed aggregate Democratic cities against Trump's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown.

However, migration and borderline information proved potent issues for Republicans crossed the state successful 2024, arsenic cities beyond the U.S.-Mexico borderline felt strain that the GOP has blamed connected Biden medication borderline policies.

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The "congressman" leans successful adjacent and says she volition person "lots of company" successful an El Salvadorian prison. (Progress Action Fund)

It forced apical Democratic officials to pivot toward much blimpish stances connected amerciable migrant criminals and amerciable migration successful general.

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However, the Progressive Action Fund is betting connected Trump's effect benefiting the near up of the 2026 midterms.

Jacobson said his group's concern successful the advertisement was successful the "mid-six-figure range" and that it would deed societal media first, earlier getting much targeted placement successful plaything states and districts.

Both the National Republican Congressional Committee and the White House panned the advertisement erstwhile reached for comment.

"Democrats person wholly mislaid the crippled if they deliberation a creepy, incoherent advertisement similar this is going to triumph implicit young voters. Not a azygous idiosyncratic is falling for this pathetic, fear-mongering nonsense," NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella said.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital, "It would beryllium much businesslike for Democrats to conscionable airy their wealth connected occurrence alternatively of spending it fear-mongering with a silly advertisement nary 1 takes seriously. This is intelligibly conscionable a bittersweet effort to distract from the convulsive Democrat rioters successful LA who privation to support transgression amerciable aliens successful American communities."