Democratic and liberal groups in three states with vulnerable Republican senators are running television and digital ads linking them to Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the GOP’s increasingly unpopular leader in the Senate. The spots are mirror images of ads Republicans deployed for years linking House Democrats to now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The ads, running in Maine, Colorado and Arizona, argue that those states’ incumbent Republican senators are more interested in following McConnell than in authentically representing their states. In Colorado, McConnell briefly appears alongside Trump in a Senate Majority PAC ad attacking Gardner for being a tool of national Republicans. “The drug companies control Gardner, McConnell and the Senate,” the ad’s narrator says.

Source: Huffington Post June 29, 2020 17:03 UTC