--- title: Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in Ad description: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is stepping up her outreach to Republican voters with a new ad canonical: https://time.com/4486321/hillary-clinton-outreach-republican-voters/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-10T11:00:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:30:47.064Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in New Ad og:description: The ad highlights GOP critics of Donald Trump og:url: https://time.com/4486321/hillary-clinton-outreach-republican-voters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in New Ad twitter:description: The ad highlights GOP critics of Donald Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in New Ad by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 10, 2016 11:00 AM UTC by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 10, 2016 11:00 AM UTC Democratic presidential nominee [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4486306/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-rt-america/) is stepping up her outreach to Republican voters with a new ad released Saturday highlighting [GOP critics](http://time.com/4444832/republicans-not-voting-donald-trump/) of [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4485162/donald-trump-doubles-down-on-russia/). The 30-second spot, featuring clips of prominent current and former Republican elected officials saying they can’t vote for Trump and calling him unqualified for the presidency, comes as Clinton seeks to make inroads with traditional GOP voters who are uncomfortable with the party’s bombastic nominee. In recent weeks Clinton has aggressively courted noted Republican foreign policy hands fearful of a Trump presidency, meeting with several GOP national security veterans Friday in New York City. Last month her campaign launched the “Together for America” campaign, which features prominent Republicans, including many former Bush administration officials, working on behalf on Clinton. The national campaign is being supplemented by state-specific efforts to highlight Republicans who are crossing the aisle this November. Reaching out to GOP voters is an imperative for Clinton, given Trump’s strong command over white working-class voters, including many who used to vote for the Democratic ticket. According to the Clinton campaign, the ad will be rotated into its existing buys in Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Omaha media market—latter, where one Electoral College vote is at stake in the swing district. Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in Ad ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4486321/hillary-clinton-outreach-republican-voters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4486321/hillary-clinton-outreach-republican-voters/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in New Ad","datePublished":"2016-09-10T11:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:30:47.064Z","description":"The ad highlights GOP critics of Donald Trump","url":"https://time.com/4486321/hillary-clinton-outreach-republican-voters/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4486321/hillary-clinton-outreach-republican-voters/","name":"Hillary Clinton Steps Up Outreach to Republican Voters in New Ad"}}]}] ```