Ad Roundup:
• FL-Sen: Democrat Patrick Murphy features an Orlando mass shooting victim’s mother blasting Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for doing nothing to fight gun violence.
• IN-Sen: AFSCME shows a laid-off manufacturing worker attacking Republican Todd Young for standing with companies that outsource jobs.
• NC-Sen: Republican Sen. Richard Burr has the widow of a fallen soldier disgustingly attack Democrat Deborah Ross for supporting burning the American flag, when in reality Ross merely opposes flagrantly unconstitutional efforts to make flag-burning illegal. She also employs other common Republican lines of attack like supporting the Iran nuclear deal to essentially argue Ross hates America.
• NH-Sen: The DSCC hits Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte for various votes that would privatize, cut, and raise the retirement age for Social Security and Medicare.
• NV-Sen: Republican Joe Heck calls Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto “the most corrupt attorney general in Nevada history” who put serving Harry Reid ahead of competently doing her job. The NRSC similarly tries to paint Cortez Masto as a corrupt politician in the pocket of special interests.
• PA-Sen: Senate Majority PAC links Republican Sen. Pat Toomey to Donald Trump on banning abortion, playing a clip where Trump says there has to be some form of punishment for women, followed by Toomey saying there need to be penalties for the doctors who perform abortions. The DSCC skewers Toomey for voting against regulations on banks and Wall Street that protect everyday Americans while himself having a large ownership stake in a bank. The Club for Growth calls Democrat Katie McGinty a corrupt insider who wants to raise taxes for her own personal benefit.
• WI-Sen: Republican Sen. Ron Johnson portrays several supposedly regular folks praising him for not being your average politician, playing up his business background. In one particular bit of chutzpah, they note he actually took a pay cut to become a senator. That’s one way to spin how Johnson called his previous $700,000 yearly pay “a pretty reasonable compensation level” while also opposing the existence of the federal minimum wage.
• IN-Gov: The wife of Republican Eric Holcomb says she has taught women how to shoot firearms for years and promises the candidate will protect gun owners’ rights. Democrat John Gregg shows a broken-down school bus to argue Holcomb will continue the same broken education policies from Gov. Mike Pence’s tenure, though Gregg doesn’t call out Pence by name.
• MO-Gov: Republican Eric Greitens attacks Democrat Chris Koster for living it up on an expensive foreign trip and not returning to Missouri immediately to deal with the tornado that had devastated the city of Joplin in 2011.
• OR-Gov: Democratic Gov. Kate Brown touts her work to raise the minimum wage, paid sick leave, and her efforts to build a system that works for everyday people.
• CA-10: The DCCC quickly plays audio clips of Trump’s infamous “grab them by the pussy” tape—although they don’t even included a bleeped-out version of the vulgarity—to hammer Republican Rep. Jeff Denham for standing by Trump even after the latter bragged about committing sexual assault.
• CO-03: The LCV puts $150,000 behind an attack on Republican Rep. Scott Tipton for wanting to sell off Colorado’s public lands to special interests, which threatens ranchers and outdoor recreation enthusiasts.
• FL-13: Democrat Charlie Crist is out with two spots (here and here). In the first, he promises to stand up for seniors and veterans, saying he opposes privatizing the VA or any cuts to Social Security and Medicare, while he vows to protect women’s choice and Planned Parenthood. The second spot features a waitress on the job who says it’s hard to be a working mother who can’t afford daycare and has to rely on family members. Crist follows up by saying he will fight for the interest of women like her.
• FL-26: The NRCC released a Spanish-language version of a recent ad attacking Democratic ex-Rep. Joe Garcia. They disgustingly red-bait Garcia by taking out of context his awkward sarcasm where he said, “We’ve proven that communism works,” to absurdly portray him as a communist sympathizer in this heavily Cuban-American district. They also also scaremonger over the Iran nuclear deal.
• IL-10: Republican Rep. Bob Dold! features a mother praising the congressman for his work to help children with epilepsy like her daughter.
• MI-01: House Majority PAC blasts Republican Jack Bergman for being two-faced when it comes to promising to protect Social Security, showing a clip where Bergman says “we need to privatize” the program, which Democrats call handing it over to Wall Street.
• NE-02: Democratic Rep. Brad Ashford features several self-proclaimed Republicans praising the congressman as someone who will put Nebraska ahead of partisanship. Republican Don Bacon attacks Ashford with a clip from their recent debate. Ashford is seen saying, “I don’t know,” in response to Bacon’s gotcha question of if he knew the Omaha suburb of Bellevue was on a supposed “ISIS kill list.” This attack grasps at the flimsiest of straws, since the radical group aggressively promotes propaganda online that often bears little relation to the threats American intelligence agencies actually face.
• NV-03: Republican Danny Tarkanian bemoans Obamacare and lambasts Democrat Jacky Rosen for supporting the program.
• NY-19: The Congressional Leadership Fund continues to attack Democrat Zephyr Teachout for supposedly wanting to raise property taxes and claims she is a hypocrite who underpaid her own taxes by thousands.
• NY-22: Independent Martin Babinec puts out an unintentionally funny ad where he says political insiders call him a one-issue candidate who only cares about jobs. He answers: guilty as charged! Babinec talks up the importance of jobs as a way for people to build a brighter future, but his message is amazingly devoid of any content as to how Babinec will bring jobs to the district or if they will even be good ones. The whole ad seems like something a satirical Pawnee, Indiana, mayoral candidate might have run, with Babinec finishing “One issue candidate? Sure, and that issue is you.”
• TX-23: Republican Rep. Will Hurd attacks Democratic ex-Rep. Pete Gallego for being a career politician dead set on pigging out on the taxpayer-funded public trough. The DCCC plays clips of Trump offending women, the disabled, and veterans, then skewers Hurd for refusing to disavow Trump earlier. They blast Hurd for supporting deep cuts to programs that support veterans.
• UT-04: Republican Rep. Mia Love is out with two ads (here and here). The first one touts her record on education, and she spouts off conservative talking points like keeping the federal government out of education and promoting local control of schools. The second spot bemoans Democrat Doug Owens’ negative attacks, claiming Love is a staunch supporter of veterans.