Trump runs ads in Georgia the state — with pictures of Georgia the country: report

Former President Donald Trump made a glaring mistake in a new digital ad campaign targeted at Republican voters in Georgia, using imagery from the wrong Georgia, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"ATTENTION GEORGIA: I'm humbling asking you to stop what you're doing and check your voter registration status," said the ad, which is as of press time is still reportedly running for certain Facebook users in Georgia. "Only a handful of votes will decide this election. We can stop inflation, secure our borders, lower taxes, and make America Great Again!" The message is accompanied by an image of a vast, meadowed mountain range, overlaid with the words "REGISTER TO VOTE FOR TRUMP. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION" which links to a registration portal.

The problem, pointed out AJC, is that this mountain range is not in Georgia — at least, not Georgia the U.S. state. According to Shutterstock image data, it's from Georgia, the former Soviet republic located in the Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

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This is not the first time the Trump campaign has made a blunder in their efforts to target Georgia. Right after the presidential election in 2020, as the Stop the Steal efforts were ramping up to try to block certification of the electoral count, a key Trump ally trying to rally supporters to protest in Atlanta managed to misspell the state's name.

Georgia has emerged as one of the most critical battlegrounds in the 2024 election. Voters there narrowly backed President Joe Biden and have voted Democratic in three consecutive Senate elections, but Republicans retain strength in down-ballot races, and polling throughout the year has shown the state as a tossup.

Vice President Kamala Harrisheld a rally in Georgia last week, where she laid into Trump and condemned GOP leaders, after the first widely-covered reports of a woman dying as a result of a post-Roe state abortion ban delaying her access to care.