Did the Republican Party mistakenly write “Merry Christmas” on the Party Poster?

Advertisement for “It’s a wonderful country”, a Christmas party organized by Republican Party member for the National Innovation group on Sunday, December 19, has been widely shared on social media – but not necessarily for the reasons the event organizers anticipated.

The source of the controversy was invitations to the festival, which was scheduled to be held in downtown Phoenix and featured Blake Masters, Rep. Madison Cawthorn and Representative Louie Gohmert between speakers and attendees.

Claim

Images of GOP’s Christmas party invitations circulating on social media appear to show a typo. A stylized festive card after a poster for the 1946 movie It’s a wonderful life, including the same drawing of a man hugging a woman.

The text at the top of the invitations, in the same font and colors as the movie posters, says: “We say ‘Merry Christmas’ again at the best reception of the weekend.”

The invitation to what the card refers to as a “popular reception for the season” was originally posted last Saturday by the group’s Twitter page, @RNRenewal, and has received around 130 likes at the time. publish.

An almost identical image has been shared on Twitter by the verified account of Alexander Nazaryan, a White House correspondent for Yahoo News and a former Newsweek staff writer. It was posted by Nazaryan on December 9 with the caption: “They misspelled ‘Merry Christmas.’ h / t@willrahn. “

The picture shows the same poster, but the word “happy” has been misspelled as “marriage”. The Yahoo News reporter’s tweet has been liked nearly 3,000 times at the time of publication.

Truth

Posters for the event have been shared widely on social media and online, including on @RNRenewal, with the original invitation posted on the account dating back to December 4. appear on that Twitter account’s post without a typo.

The invitation also encourages readers to purchase “early tickets” and to link to an external page on Eventbrite. The external page provides more information about the event, speech: “Join the National Renewal Republican Party for Christmas with the top VIPs at the forefront of today’s populist national politics.”

While some social media users initially pointed out that the image used on the Eventbrite site also had typos, the banner was free of typographical errors at the time of writing.

The group’s website, designed to “support activists taking over the party machinery and boosting the Republican party Conference to support our President’s agenda, “a reference to Donald Trump According to the rest of the statement, shared a post about the upcoming Christmas party on December 6.

It features the same It’s a wonderful life-themed invitations, with “Merry” spelled correctly.

However, as Mark Ivanyo, Republican Executive Director of National Innovation, says Newsweek, the original post did indeed contain an image with a typo: the word “marriage” was originally written instead of “fun”.

“The designer who created the original version of that graphic made a typo,” says Ivanyo.

“However, as conservatives, we are very supportive of the institution of marriage, so we encourage all unmarried people to consider getting married this festive season as well. “

Governance

Right.

The claim is true: The Republican Party for National Innovation has in fact misspelled “Merry Christmas” on its party posters, the group’s CEO revealed. Although the original tweeted image was replaced with a corrected version, the erroneous image was saved and has since been shared by other social media users.

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