ICYMI: First look: Democrats add website to Scott attacks [Axios]

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Axios: First look: Democrats add website to Scott attacks
By Andrew Solender
March 14, 2022

Key Points:

• Senate Democrats are launching a website aimed at keeping a controversial tax proposal put out by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) fresh in the minds of voters this midterm year, Axios has learned.
  
  
• Why it matters: The move showcases how Senate Democrats have homed in on Scott’s agenda… as an opportunity to try to flip the script and put Republicans on defense this year.
  
  
• In addition to the website, Senate Democrats have launched a radio ad buy, sent copies of the agenda to GOP Senate candidates and launched a mobile billboard to try to exacerbate any McConnell-Scott split.
  
  
• Driving the news: The website, GOPTaxHike.com, seizes on Scott’s proposal that “all Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game,” according to the press release and website mock-up obtained by Axios.

• The website, launched by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), identifies Americans who would see their taxes raised under such a proposal, including some of the poorest groups.
  
  
• “This website will help voters learn how damaging and expensive Republicans’ tax hikes would be for them,” said DSCC spokesperson David Bergstein.
  
  
• “In 2022 voters will hold every GOP Senate candidate accountable for their party’s toxic agenda.”

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