DON’T WANT NO SCRUBS – GOP SENATE CANDIDATES ARE “LEARNING THE PERILS OF POLITICAL TAKE-BACKS.” News coverage is highlighting how “Republican hopefuls are learning the perils of political take-backs” as they get caught “trying to disappear the hardline anti-abortion stances they took during their primaries” – a clumsy move that has “emboldened Democrats to mount an aggressive offense.”
RICK-EM-SOCK-EM-ROBOTS – RICK SCOTT AND MITCH MCCONNELL “ESCALATE AN UGLY QUARREL” AS THEIR FLAWED SENATE CANDIDATES FLOUNDER. Fresh off his Italian yacht vacation, Rick Scott “appeared to escalate an ugly quarrel” with Mitch McConnell – leading to a wave of news coverage highlighting the “Republican disarray,” “long-simmering tensions,” and “growing rift” playing out “in the latest sign of the G.O.P.’s eroding confidence” in their deeply flawed Senate candidates.
GOP SENATE CANDIDATES “GRAB THE ‘THIRD RAIL.’” NBC News highlighted how GOP Senate candidates from Ron Johnson to Blake Masters would put Social Security on the chopping block – a dangerous proposition for seniors.
OZ SLAMMED FOR CALLING ABORTION ‘MURDER’ NO MATTER THE PREGNANCY STAGE. Oz’s dangerous comment “puts him at odds with most of Pennsylvania’s electorate” and “would make him one of the most extreme Senate candidates in the nation on the issue of reproductive rights.” Oh, and it also made the front page of Pennsylvania’s largest newspaper.
NEW DSCC CABLE AD CALLS OUT MASTERS’ SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL ABORTION BAN. The new TV spot, “Jennifer,” features a testimonial highlighting that Blake Masters supports a national abortion ban with no exceptions.
WATCH: “Jennifer”
NO MASTER OF DECEPTION.. After getting caught trying to ‘Etch A Sketch’ his dangerous anti-choice position, Masters was back in the news this week for trying to scrub “false claims of a stolen election” from his website, and for a resurfaced video showing him rapping in war paint.
FOR RON JOHNSON, ALL PRESS APPEARS TO BE BAD PRESS. Johnson is making all the wrong headlines once again: the Wisconsin Examiner detailed how he has benefited from government funding despite railing against other government programs; UpNorthNews revealed his campaign took money from companies that have outsourced Wisconsin jobs; The Wisconsin State Journalreported on his plan to ‘coax’ seniors back into the workforce; and NBC News detailed how a ‘fake elector’ is working for his campaign. All in a week’s work for RoJo.
SHADIER THAN AREA 51 – LAXALT PURSUED AUDIT OF 2020 ELECTION AS LATE AS SEPTEMBER OF 2021 New bombshell reporting from the Nevada Independentthis week showed that Laxalt continued working to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump deep into his campaign for U.S. Senate.
MARCO RUBIO IS A DANGER TO FLORIDA WOMEN – “WOULD FAVOR A COMPLETE BAN ON ABORTION,” SAYS UNBORN “SHOULD PREVAIL” OVER MOTHER. Rubio continues to make it clear that he wants to implement a national ban on abortion “with no exceptions for rape, incest and human trafficking.” It’s no surprise that reporters are declaring “Val Demings has Rubio on the ropes.”
MISSING: HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS MAN? OHIO REPUBLICANS ASK “WHERE’S J.D.?” CNN had the same problem that Ohio Republicans have been encountering when they traveled to report on the OhioSenate race – they couldn’t seem to find J.D. Vance.
JUST THIS WEEK, THANKS TO SENATE DEMOCRATS
This week Senate Democrats were in their home states focusing on working families’ most pressing priorities: lowering costs by making Big Pharma and wealthy corporations pay their fair share, improving our supply chains by making more products in America, expanding health care for our veterans, and rebuilding their state’s infrastructure.
IN THE STATES
CO – KDVR: Truth Check: Bennet highlights differences in abortion views in Senate race. “‘Joe O’Dea opposes the law protecting abortion access in Colorado’ … Truth Check says this is true.”
NH – Manchester Ink Link: Hassan launches veterans’ council at Sweeney Post stop. “U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined New Hampshire veterans on Monday morning to launch Veterans for Maggie at American Legion Sweeney Post #2, delivering remarks about her commitment to fighting for service members, veterans, and military families in New Hampshire and across the country.”
NC – The Assembly NC: Paper Elephant. “‘I think Budd is running a terrible campaign,’ one former official from the state Republican Party said. ‘He has not put forth a vision of what he’d do for the state.’”
OH – Cleveland.com (Opinion): J.D. Vance’s Senate candidacy is a stain on the GOP. “There’s a whole lot of stench oozing from the candidacy of the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate… As a candidate, Vance has awful political instincts, not an ounce of class and a tendency to embrace views parroted by political maggots he considers friends.”
WI – Heartland Signal: FACT CHECK: Ron Johnson’s campaign falsely claims Milwaukee newspaper called him ‘champion of Social Security’. “Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R) re-election campaign falsely claimed that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called him a ‘champion’ of Social Security and Medicare, mischaracterizing an op-ed as an endorsement.”
TWEET OF THE WEEK
David Bergstein
Amanda Sherman
Pat Burgwinkle
Nora Keefe
Freedom Murphy
Eli Cousin
Claire Berry
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