Amidst all the furor over GOPers clutching their pearls, as they say, over Taylor Swift, one needs to remember that nearly 25 years ago, they didn't seem to have a problem reaching out to the youth of the country.
Vince McMahon, then-owner of the then-World Wrestling Federation (now WWE), mounted an ad campaign in 2000 to "Smackdown Your Vote" (italics mine) in order to get fans to the polls. Regardless of which side of the moral fence they presented themselves to be back then, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Lita, Stephanie McMahon, and others appeared in the commercials, such as this one, with Stephanie & Lita at the forefront.
As we know, George W. Bush won his first term. The WWF/E ad campaign would continue for a few more years, ending, if memory serves, prior to the end of Bush's 2nd term. Today, Vince McMahon is out of WWE & TKO Holdings in disgrace, and the GOP would rather bow to a false god (Donald Trump) than encourage the youth vote. Let us not forget that Linda McMahon ran unsuccessfully for US Senate out of Connecticut in 2010 & 2012, and spent 2 years as the head of the Small Business Administration under Trump.
I wonder what percentage of today's wrestling fans in the youth demo would take the above video to heart.......
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