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The AFL-CIO is making its first foray into 2016 Senate races Thursday with a six-figure digital ad buy in six key races, officials told NBC News.
The targeted Facebook ads will run in Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Florida and Wisconsin, each of which have competitive Senate races.
With messages on issues like trade, Wall Street, paid family leave, and infrastructure, the ads ask voters to sign a petition knocking the GOP candidate in the race, a tactic which can also help the group grow its data on voters.
For instance, an ad targeting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio asks voters to "tell Sen. Rubio [to] stop supporting bad trade deals." Ads targeting Joe Heck in Nevada tie him to Donald Trump, calling on the candidate to speak out against the presumptive GOP nominee's "hateful rhetoric."
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is pushing to expose Donald Trump as a fraud when it comes to his position on free trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In races like in Ohio and Pennsylvania, free trade is hurting GOP incumbent Senators:
They now find themselves facing not only skeptical voters but also a fierce opponent at the top of their party ticket inMr. Trump, who on Tuesday said he would demand NAFTA be renegotiated or outright scrapped.
“NAFTA was the worst trade deal in history and China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization has enabled the greatest jobs theft in history,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
Christopher Borick, professor of political science at Muhlenberg College, said Mr. Trump’s stance on trade puts Mr. Toomey in a “very awkward position.”
“They are polar opposites when it comes to trade policies,” Mr. Borick said. “They are just in different worlds.”
Paul A. Beck, professor of political science at Ohio State University, said Mr. Trump also poses a challenge for Mr. Portman, who served as the Bush administration’s top trade representative and is facing a stiff challenge from former Gov. Ted Strickland
“There is probably no one more identified in the Republican Party with free trade than Portman, certainly given his time as the Bush administration’s trade representative,” Mr. Beck said. “He has been very consistently in favor of free trade his whole life.”
All the Democrats running in these races have come out in opposition of the TPP so it’s important to help them win their races. Click below to donate and get involved with their campaigns:
Ted Strickland (D. OH)
Jason Kander (D. MO)
Katie McGinty (D. PA)
Catherine Cortez Masto (D. NV)
Patrick Murphy (D. FL)
Alan Grayson (D. FL)
Russ Feingold (D. WI)