• MO-Sen: In their first spot, the NRSC argues that Democrat Jason Kander has voted to raise taxes and “even voted in favor of Obamacare.” The bill the ad brings up was an attempt to establish a state health insurance exchange in 2011, a year after Obamacare was passed, but the narrator’s wording makes it sound like Kander was actually in Congress to support Obamacare (he wasn’t).
• NV-Sen: The NRSC has a Spanish spot arguing that Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto took luxurious trips while serving as state attorney general.
• PA-Sen: Prosperity for Pennsylvania, a new super PAC set up to help Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, is spending $1 million arguing that Democrat Katie McGinty wants to raise taxes. The commercial features bobbleheads of McGinty, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Senate Majority PAC features a clip of Toomey declaring, “I think the solution is to eliminate corporate taxes altogether.”
• NC-Gov: The League of Conservation Voters launches a $700,000 TV buy linking Republican Gov. Pat McCrory to Duke Energy. The narrator invokes the 2014 coal ash spill, where a burst pipe at a Duke stream station spilled 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. The spot then features newscasters saying that McCrory used to work for the company and benefits from their political contributions, before the narrator accuses McCrory of covering up how dangerous the state’s drinking water was after the spill.
• AZ-01: Republican Paul Babeu is out with his first few commercials (here, here, and here). The first two spots, which are each 15-seconds, praise Babeu for his record as Pinal county sheriff. The third is more interesting. The narrator references “smears from outside money” before various people praise Babeu as “honest” and as someone who cares. It concludes with Greenlee County Sheriff Larry Avila declaring, “I am a sheriff, I am a Democrat, and I support Paul.”
The commercial doesn’t mention any specific allegations against Babeu. However, the DCCC recently ran a spot that featured news reports of the abuse that happened under Republican Paul Babeu's watch at the Massachusetts boarding school he ran. Babeu’s ad also starts with a shot of that D-Trip ad.
• AZ-02: Republican Rep. Martha McSally features an Air Force pilot praising her military record and work protecting the A-10 fighter.
• FL-18: Democrat Randy Perkins is out with two more ads (here and here). He promotes his humble origins in the first one, and ties Republican Brian Mast to tea partying ex-Rep. Allen West in the other. This is the second time that Perkins has invoked West, who narrowly lost re-election here in 2012, in his ads.
• MI-07: Republican Rep. Tim Walberg features a father who lost his son to heroin praising the congressman for working with Democrats to combat drug addiction.
• NY-24: The DCCC accuses Republican Rep. John Katko of saying he’d support funding for Planned Parenthood during his 2014 campaign, only to vote to defund it four times in Congress.
• PA-16: In his first ad, Republican Lloyd Smucker goes biographical.