August 2, 2024 Press Releases

DSCC FRIDAY TAKEAWAYS: AROUND 100 DAYS OUT, SENATE DEMS MOBILIZE VOTERS & HIGHLIGHT CONTRAST WITH FLAWED GOP RECRUITS, KARI LAKE’S “UNDERWHELMING” PRIMARY PERFORMANCE

AROUND 100 DAYS OUT, SENATE DEMS MOBILIZE VOTERS & HIGHLIGHT CONTRAST WITH FLAWED GOP CANDIDATES →

IN THE STATES → Around 100 days out from Election Day, Democratic Senate campaigns across the country highlighted the strength of Democratic candidates, the power of their campaigns, and the weakness of Republicans’ Senate recruits. Check out how Democratic Senate campaigns marked 100 days out from Election Day.

✍️ READ IT AND WEEP, SENATE GOP → A new MSNBC guest column from DSCC Chair Gary Peters highlights why “Democrats are in the strongest possible position to defend our Senate majority…because we have better candidates, stronger campaigns and a winning message.”

📺 DSCC CHAIR PETERS DISCUSSES “HIGHLY FLAWED” GOP RECRUITS → DSCC Chair Gary Peters joined MSNBC’s The Weekend and Morning Joe to discuss how Senate Democrats are strongly positioned for victory and running against “highly flawed” GOP recruits.

Senator Peters on The Weekend: “It’s really about candidate quality, and that’s why we continue to see Senate candidates doing very well against their Republican opponents.”

Senator Peters on Morning Joe: “All of these U.S. Senate races are candidate vs. candidate races. It’s how we won last cycle. We defeated flawed and highly flawed Republican challengers with our Democratic incumbents and candidates. The same thing is happening this cycle.”

AZ SENATE PRIMARY SHOWS “POWER HUNGRY” LAKE’S “UNDERLYING WEAKNESSES AS A CANDIDATE” →

“ALARM BELLS” RING AFTER LAKE’S “DISAPPOINTING” PRIMARY PERFORMANCE → Following Kari Lake’s “underwhelming” performance in the Arizona Senate Republican primary, reporting is detailing how her “disappointing” performance “speaks to her underlying weaknesses as a candidate in November,” and even Arizona Republicans are commenting it’s “a bad sign for her general election.”

LAKE’S “POWER-HUNGRY AGENDA” → In response to Arizona’s GOP Senate primary, the DSCC launched a new digital ad, “Power Hungry,” highlighting how Kari Lake will do or say anything to gain power, using her own statements to show how her dangerous, power-hungry agenda is wrong for Arizona.

📣 DSCC CHAIR SEN. PETERS ON THE AZ SENATE RACE → DSCC Chair Sen. Gary Peters on the start of the general election in Arizona’s Senate race: “While Ruben has always fought for Arizona, Kari Lake is a power hungry liar who is only ever fighting to advance herself.”

THE COUNTDOWN TO THE MICHIGAN SENATE PRIMARY IS ON, AND MICHIGANDERS ARE RIPPING ON REVOLVIN’ DOOR ROGERS →

ROGERS GETS RIPPED, PART I: “USED HIS RELATIONSHIPS AS A FORMER LAWMAKER TO WALK THROUGH THAT REVOLVING DOOR” → Ahead of the Michigan Senate primary next week, Michigan Democrats are sounding the alarm on how Mike Rogers used “his past career in Congress to ‘enrich’ himself in the tech world…particularly through companies with some Chinese relationships,” MIRS reports.

ROGERS GETS RIPPED, PART II: “REPRESENTS EVERYTHING PEOPLE HATE ABOUT POLITICS” → Leaders across the state “are warning Michigan voters to steer clear of Republican US Senate candidate Mike Rogers,” saying “he represents everything that people hate about politics” and “cannot be trusted to do anything aside from padding his own bottom line,” The Gander reports.

THE CONTRAST BETWEEN BOB CASEY AND DAVID MCCORMICK’S RECORD ON FENTANYL IS “STARK AND CLEAR,” SAYS PA VOTER → The Pittsburgh Union Progress reported on a press conference this week featuring Pennsylvanians with personal experiences with the fentanyl crisis calling out David McCormick for his record investing millions in the biggest fentanyl producer in China while CEO of Bridgewater Associates.

State Representative Aerion Abney: “David McCormick puts profits over Pennsylvanians, while Senator Casey is fighting on the side of our families.”

Pittsburgh Fire Fighters Vice President Tim Leech: “While thousands of Pennsylvania families struggled with the loss of a loved one…[McCormick’s] only concern was how to make even more profits.”

Bob Casey’s campaign launched a new ad, “Staggering,” highlighting how Dave McCormick profited off Pennsylvanians’ pain by investing in Chinese fentanyl.

RICK SCOTT SLAMMED BY FLORIDIANS FOR PLAN TO SUNSET MEDICARE ON 59TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROGRAM → On the 59th anniversary of Medicare being signed into law, local coverage details how Floridians are slamming Rick Scott’s plan to end Medicare and Social Security. See some of the headlines for yourself:

Florida Phoenix: On Medicare’s 59th birthday, FL-Dems again hit Rick Scott on the issue

Florida Politics: Florida Democrats whack Rick Scott on anniversary of Medicare

WCTV Tallahassee: Many Floridians worried about Medicare’s future

🥇 WHILE TEAM USA GENERATED MORE OLYMPIC MEDALS, SENATE REPUBLICANS GENERATED…MORE NEGATIVE HEADLINES →

ON THE HILL: SENATE GOP VOTES AGAINST TAX RELIEF FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES → Senate Republicans are facing a wave of coverage for blocking legislation that would cut taxes for American families after supporting tax handouts to big corporations that get rich by keeping prices high. Read the coverage for yourself.

MORENO CLAIMS “OUTSIDER” STATUS…DESPITE WEALTH THAT “GOES BACK GENERATIONS” → The Associated Press reports that, despite campaigning as a “political outsider and immigrant whose family built its way out of rudimentary beginnings,” Bernie Moreno has “deep political connections,” with family members “recycl[ing] through senior government jobs” and wealth that “goes back generations.”

HOVDE’S “‘BIGOTED’ COMMENTS ON BLACK MEN”→ Urban Milwaukee details Hovde’s years of “‘bigoted’ comments on Black men” including saying that “Black men have lived on ‘handouts’ and ‘welfare checks.’”

…AND HOVDE’S HEDGE FUND HIDEAWAY → The American Journal News reports that Eric Hovde “oversaw hedge funds that stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in the Cayman Islands” after saying he “wouldn’t necessarily” support attempts to “crack down on offshore banking.”

MCCONNELL, DAINES HEAP MORE PRAISE ONTO HAND-PICKED LARRY HOGAN → Punchbowl News reports that Mitch McConnell hailed Larry Hogan as a “fabulous” candidate, while the Baltimore Sun reports that NRSC Chair Sen. Steve Daines, “call[ed] Larry Hogan a ‘maverick’ while GOP megadonors embrace his candidacy,” reminding Marylanders that Larry Hogan would be Republicans’ 51st vote.

CRUZ’S SHADY FUNDRAISING RAISES EYEBROWS IN TEXAS → The San Antonio Current reports that “nearly all the money so far generated by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s controversial podcast-syndication deal…has gone to directly support his reelection bid,” news that comes after Cruz “faced intense scrutiny over his arrangement with iHeartMedia” for being allegedly “structured to skirt federal campaign contribution laws.”

SCOTT PLAYS HOOKY→ American Journal News reports that Rick Scott repeatedly “missed Senate votes” to spend time with Donald Trump and even “missed Senate votes in May to attend Trump’s hush money trial in New York.”

ADD IT TO THE QUEUE →

Ruben Gallego’s campaign released a new ad, “Take It From Her,” reminding Arizona voters of Kari Lake’s dangerous plan to ban abortion and hurt Arizona women.

Montanans for Tester released a new ad, “Bankrupted,” highlighting how Tim Sheehy wants to privatize health care, which would drive up medical costs for Montanans.

Colin Allred’s campaign launched a new ad, “Out Here,” slamming Ted Cruz for doing nothing to secure the border and laying out Allred’s work to add more border patrol agents, stop the flow of fentanyl, and end human trafficking.