October 18, 2024 Press Releases

DSCC FRIDAY TAKEAWAYS: DSCC LAUNCHES NEW AD CAMPAIGN IN LOCAL BLACK MEDIA OUTLETS, SENATE GOP’S “RISKY BUSINESS,” CATCH UP QUICK ON GOP’S DEBATE DISASTERS

DSCC LAUNCHES NEW AD CAMPAIGN IN LOCAL BLACK MEDIA OUTLETS ACROSS 7 BATTLEGROUNDS → This week, the DSCC announced a new advertising campaign in local Black media outlets across seven battleground states (FL, MD, MI, OH, PA, TX, and WI), directing voters to IWillVote.com, reminding individuals to make a plan to vote, and highlighting the importance of participating in the 2024 Senate elections.

AND THE WINNER IS…JEZEBEL RANKS “BATSHIT” GOP SENATE CANDIDATE SCANDALS → New reporting by Jezebel details how “nearly every GOP candidate has been embroiled in some comically absurd scandal or another,” including “call[ing] women ‘crazy’ for caring about abortion rights…compar[ing] himself to a falsely accused rapist…[and one who] doesn’t even appear to live in the state where he’s running.”

🕶️ SENATE REPUBLICANS’ “RISKY BUSINESS” RECORDS BITE → National Journal details how Senate Republicans’ “business credentials haven’t resonated with voters” and how “Democrats are on the air attacking the candidates’ business practices and investments, scrutinizing their purported success, and questioning their ties to the state they’re running in.”

SHADY SHEEHY SLAMMED WITH BACK-TO-BACK WAPO & NYT EXPOSES ON HIS LIES →

SHADY SHEEHY’S BULLET WOUND LIE GETS WORSE… → The Washington Post details, for the first time, a former Glacier National Park Ranger’s firsthand account of the day records show Sheehy shot himself in the arm. The Ranger called out Sheehy for his “refusal to own up to the truth,” saying Sheehy’s “story just has so many holes.”

…AND WORSE → The New York Times reports that “two people who had close interactions with Mr. Sheehy…have come forward, raising new questions about whether the bullet wound had come during his military service,” and providing “additional evidence on an issue of truthfulness that has dogged the Sheehy campaign.”

CATCH UP QUICK: REPUBLICANS DAMAGED AT DEBATES →

IN PA, MCCORMICK “HIGHLY POLISHED AT UTTERING PURE BALONEY” → The Philadelphia Inquirer opinion team slammed McCormick’s debate performance this week, with one summary concluding, “McCormick’s debate performance was a reminder of just how ill-suited he is to replace Casey.”

IN MI, ROGERS “VISIBLY FRUSTRATED” AT MENTION OF DEVOS → The Gander details that Rogers was “visibly frustrated” when Betsy DeVos, “one of his campaign’s biggest donors,” was mentioned during the debate, saying he is “not sure” how DeVos “has anything to do with us trying to improve education for our kids” despite her serving as the former United States Secretary of Education.

🛸 IN NV, SAM BROWN’S NOT-SO OUT OF THIS WORLD DEBATE PERFORMANCE “COULD SPELL TROUBLE” FOR HIS CAMPAIGN → Brown’s disastrous debate performance “could spell trouble” for his campaign after Jacky Rosen slammed him for his record opposing reproductive freedom “a vulnerability for Mr. Brown,” saying, “If you don’t believe that he would support a nationwide abortion ban, I’ve got some oceanfront property to sell you on the Las Vegas Strip.”

IN TX, CRUZ VISIBLY FRUSTRATED, “I FELT LIKE I WAS GETTING SCREAMED AT” → At this week’s debate, Cruz was visibly “frustrated” and “repeatedly avoided giving a direct answer to questions about his position on abortion rights,” HuffPost reports. POLITICO also highlighted Cruz’s refusal to answer questions about “whether he supports allowing abortion in the cases of incest or rape,” complaining to the moderators, “Why do you keep asking me that?” Read what they’re saying about Cruz’s disastrous debate.

HOVDE HURTING IN WISCONSIN AHEAD OF TONIGHT’S DEBATE →

WHAT A JERK (PART I) → Wisconsin students condemned Hovde for saying young people can’t “write properly” or “understand a good work ethic,” and “took aim at…his company’s demolition of the Silver Dollar Tavern,” saying his “decision to demolish the downtown watering hole shows that he doesn’t understand Wisconsin culture.”

WHAT A JERK (PART II) → The Washington Post reports that Hovde called his political opponents “a curse to society” in a recent interview, the latest in a series of comments to come out from his “dark, divisive campaign.”

🐼🐼 THE GIANT PANDAS ARE BACK IN D.C., BUT SENATE REPUBLICANS NEVER STOPPED BEARING THE BRUNT OF THEIR CANDIDATE QUALITY PROBLEMS →

MCCORMICK MAULED: NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS & VETERANS HIT MCCORMICK: “THE ONLY COLOR THAT MCCORMICK SEES IS GREEN” → Reporting from WTAJ details how, this week, national security leaders and Pennsylvania veterans “attacked [McCormick], claiming that he invested in Russian debt as the CEO of Bridgewater Associates.”

THIRD TIME’S A CHARM FOR BIGGEST LOSER MCCORMICK → For the third time, McCormick was named one of the week’s biggest losers by City and State Pennsylvania after he “appeared to mix up the Philadelphia Eagles and Steelers in a post on X.”

KEYSTONE NEWSROOM: DAVE MCCORMICK FEATURES GOP ACTIVISTS AS ‘FORMER DEMOCRATS’ IN NEW AD

MORENO CHEWED OUT BY OHIOANS FOR OFFENSIVE COMMENTS → New reporting highlights how Moreno’s campaign has been “rattle[d]” by the backlash to his offensive comments that “undermine[d] the reproductive rights amendment passed by a majority of [Ohio] voters,” with the issue “galvaniz[ing]” voters who don’t want Moreno to “overrule the will of Ohioans.”

EVEN REPUBLICANS BEARISH ON BROWN → The Washington Post spotlights how Sam Brown’s campaign “struggles to gain traction” and has “failed to generate excitement among conservative voters” due to his “unfamiliarity with state issues.” The New York Times details how Brown “struggles for traction” and has been defined “as an extremist on abortion who wants to cut Social Security benefits.”

WHERE HAS ROGERS BEEN HIBERNATING? → Michiganders “rais[ed] concerns about where [Mike Rogers] lives” after extensive coverage detailed that Rogers doesn’t live in the house he claimed to, WCMU reports.

EVEN REPUBLICANS CAN’T BEAR LAKE → A wave of new reporting and analysis details Lake’s deep vulnerabilities, including how she is “viewed unfavorably by more than 20 percent of overall Republicans and over half of independents,” and is “primarily defined by her status as a political loser.”
LAKE’S RECORD PUSHING DANGEROUS CONSPIRACIES IS BLACK AND WHITE → POLITICO reports that, during an interview with a convicted January 6 insurrectionist, “Lake called for the firing of prosecutors who charged those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, calling them ‘tyrants.’”

🦀 HOGAN’S CRABBY WEEK COMES WITH A PINCH →

MAKE TIME TO READ ABOUT HOGANS’ SECOND NEW SCANDAL → TIME reveals in another bombshell report that “Hogan approved millions for stepmother’s property development as governor,” detailing “the latest example of a potential conflict of interest between Hogan’s authority over Maryland housing dollars as governor and his family’s real estate businesses.”

HOGAN STEAMED FOR DIRECTING MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO BUSINESS PARTNERS AS GOVERNOR → A wave of new coverage details how Larry Hogan potentially “use[d] the governor’s mansion to enrich himself” and how the scandal “may be more than [a] ‘flash in the pan.’”

PAN-FRIED: HOGAN CALLED OUT FOR GASLIGHTING VOTERS ON HIS RECORD OPPOSING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM → Jezebel details how Hogan is trying to “rewrite his record on the issue” of abortion despite having “vetoed a bill to expand abortion access,” part of his attempt to “gaslight voters about [his] abortion record.”

ADD IT TO THE QUEUE →

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s campaign released a new ad, “Snake,” slamming Scott, “Florida’s biggest snake,” for stealing money from seniors, writing the plan to end Social Security, raise taxes, and ban abortion. Read what they’re sss-aying about the ad here.

Ruben Gallego’s campaign released a new ad, “A Proven Fighter,” featuring President Obama highlighting Ruben’s lifetime of service.

Slotkin’s campaign released a new ad slamming Rogers for saying upgrading GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly plant and saving hundreds of jobs is a “bad investment.”

Colin Allred’s campaign released a new ad featuring Kate Cox who shares her story of having to flee Texas to get emergency care because of Ted Cruz’s abortion ban.