• IA-03: The NRCC’s new ad is titled “Syrians,” so you probably guess exactly what it’s about. The GOP argues that Democrat Jim Mowrer wants to allow in unscreened Syrian refugees, and also backs the Iran nuclear deal.
• IN-09: Democrat Shelli Yoder goes right for Republican Trey Hollingsworth’s weak spot. The spot features a clip of someone calling Hollingsworth “a carpetbagger,” before featuring a reporter describing how “Hollingsworth moved to Jeffersonville in September [of 2015] and declared his candidacy the next month." The narrator goes on to note that Hollingsworth’s wealthy father started a super PAC to help him win, before featuring another clip from a news how where a man agrees that there’s quite a bit of evidence that Hollingsworth moved from Tennessee to Indiana to run for Congress.
• ME-02: Democrat Emily Cain is out with two spots (here and here). Her first features a single mother who was diagnosed with cancer praising Cain for making “insurance companies cover oral chemo therapy just like other cancer treatments."
The second ad is a response to a recent NRCC commercial that framed Cain’s support for a bill to weigh school children as Cain trying to weight-shame girls. Cain argues that “the special interests bankrolling [GOP Rep.] Bruce Poliquin would rather talk about women’s weight than Congressman Poliquin’s ties to Wall Street.” Cain goes on to say that the GOP twisted a bipartisan public health policy, and she goes on to say, “Like a lot of women, I’ve struggled with my weight. It’s hard. It’s very personal. So for the special interests backing Bruce Poliquin to exploit the insecurities of teenage girls, it’s just a new low.”
VoteVets is also out with a $500,000 campaign against Poliquin. It features a local retired Army major general arguing that Poliquin voted to give Wall Street huge tax breaks but denied the VA the $1 billion it needed.
• NH-01: The NRCC must have decided that if they have to help Republican Rep. Frank Guinta, who paid a huge FEC fine last year for an illegal 2010 six-figure donation from his parents, they’ll run the most generic ad they possibly can. The narrator argues that while Guinta has voted to cut taxes and spending, Democrat Carol Shea-Porter has voted to tax and spend. They even reference the stimulus bill, an attack that would have been right at home in a 2010 campaign ad.
• NV-02: Democrat Chip Evans ties Republican Rep. Mark Amodei to Donald Trump. The ad is also running in Spanish.
• NV-04: Democrat Ruben Kihuen features a clip of GOP Rep. Cresent Hardy proclaiming, “I do not believe in any sort of gun control,” and the narrator eviscerates him standing with congressional Republicans to oppose background checks. The spot was partially paid for by the DCCC.