Rep. Patrick Murphy is up with his first TV spot ahead of the Aug. 30 Democratic Florida Senate primary, and he’s wasting no time utilizing his most prominent supporter. Right off the bat, President Obama tells the camera, “With all that’s at stake, we need Patrick Murphy in the Senate.”
Obama goes on to promote Murphy as a progressive who has fought special interests, and he advises the viewer not to believe the negative attacks coming from those special interests. Obama concludes by saying, “I count on Patrick Murphy, you can too.” The Democratic group Senate Majority PAC also recently went up with a spot touting Obama’s support for Murphy, though it didn’t feature any footage of the president. Murphy faces fellow Rep. Alan Grayson next month.
On the GOP side, rich guy Carlos Beruff recently launched a spot arguing that Sen. Marco Rubio was too liberal for the party of Donald Trump. Beruff evidently likes his ad, since Politico reports that he’s throwing another $900,000 behind it. Polls show Beruff badly trailing Rubio.