Republicans turned the remark into a hard-hitting television ad, contrasting it with comments from Americans expressing simple, unwavering faith in their country.

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The ad industry works so hard to keep faith out of the mix that is has backfired.

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Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.

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