Ad Roundup: Democrat Doug Applegate ties Donald Trump to Darrell Issa

• AZ-Sen: Republican Sen. John McCain continues to argue that Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick’s vote for Obamacare trashed the state.

• FL-Sen: Democrat Patrick Murphy repeatedly features a clip of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio declaring that “I don’t require there to be an exception for rape or incest,” and the narrator argues that Rubio would even take away the right to choose from women infected with Zika. The Senate Leadership Fund continues to say that Murphy embellished his resume.

• IN-Sen: The DSCC attacks Republican Todd Young on Social Security. The Senate Leadership Fund says that Democrat Evan Bayh got rich from a big bank he voted to bail out. The NRA has also placed a $644,000 buy for Team Red here, though their ad is not out yet.

• NC-Sen: In their first commercial of the race, the DSCC argues that Republican Sen. Richard Burr is in the pocket of the insurance industry and has voted to make Medicare more expensive for seniors.

• NH-Sen: Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte features a couple who lost their daughter to opioids praising Ayotte for reaching out to them and working to help other families. The Senate Leadership Fund argues that Democrat Maggie Hassan would defend Obamacare and backs the administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.

• NV-Sen: EMILY’s List spends $1 million arguing that, while Republican Joe Heck likes to play up his medical background in ads, he’s really repeatedly voted to defund Planned Parenthood and “criminalize a woman’s right to choose.” The NRSC continues a line of attack from a recent Heck ad and says that Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto took several luxurious trips as state attorney general that were paid for by special interests and taxpayers.

• PA-Sen: Democrat Katie McGinty attacks Republican Sen. Pat Toomey for voting for tax breaks that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas, and she pledges to end these tax giveaways. The Club for Growth ties McGinty to “the Philadelphia political machine,” and argues she wants higher taxes; the spot is airing in the Harrisburg media market.

• WI-Sen: Democrat Russ Feingold calls for helping Wisconsin businesses grow.

• IN-Gov: Democrat John Gregg defends his work as speaker of the state House and argues that Republican Eric Holcomb will just continue the same policies of outgoing Gov. Mike Pence that are hurting Indiana.

• AK-AL: Democrat Steve Lindbeck features a tugboat worker arguing that Republican Rep. Don Young didn’t defend Alaska jobs from a company that

wants to outsource them to Louisiana.

• AZ-01: In his first ad, Democrat Tom O'Halleran highlights his law enforcement background and calls for not paying Congress if they don’t pass a budget and taking away their first-class travel perks.

• AZ-02: Republican Rep. Martha McSally talks about her military service.

• CA-07: Democratic Rep. Ami Bera recently ran a spot against Republican Sheriff Scott Jones that featured news anchors describing how a former Jones employee accused him of sexual harassment and unwanted touching. Jones is up with a response commercial that features a legion of people, including several in law enforcement uniforms, praising Jones’ work and character. Aside from one person imploring the audience not to believe the attacks against Jones, the spot does not address Bera’s commercial or the accusations against Jones.

• CA-21: Republican Rep. David Valadao is out with his first general election ads in English and Spanish that promotes his Central Valley roots and work for veterans.

• CA-24: Republican Justin Fareed says that Democrat Salud Carbajal hasn’t done anything to adopt common-sense solutions to California’s water crisis.

• CA-49: In his first ad, Democrat Doug Applegate links Republican Rep. Darrell Issa to Donald Trump. Applegate wisely uses clips of Trump to make his case, with Trump declaring, “I’m really rich,” and “Nobody knows the system better than me.” The narrator then accuses Issa of “gaming the system to line his own pockets” by “steering millions in taxpayer money to help properties he owned.” Applegate then appears and calls for a congressman “who looks out for you, not himself.”

• CO-06: Democrat Morgan Carroll talks about how her father’s lifesavings were wiped out after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, and she says she spent her career fighting for people with disabilities. Carroll goes on to attack Donald Trump for mocking people with disabilities and argue that Republican Rep. Mike Coffman hasn’t stood up to him. The NRCC portrays Carroll has a huge spender and higher taxes in the state legislature.

• FL-07: Over the summer, the Democratic group House Majority PAC reserved $853,000 against Republican Rep. John Mica, and they’ve announced that they’ll spend that amount over the next two weeks. Their first commercial attacks Mica for raising his pay eight times even though Congress hasn’t passed a budget. The narrator then praises Democrat Stephanie Murphy for fighting for “No Budget, No Pay.”

• IL-12: Republican Rep. Mike Bost features the president of a local boot business praising him for helping them when big companies tried to make it tougher for them to get contracts.

• IN-09: In her first ad, Democrat Shelli Yoder talks about her humble origins and calls for cutting wasteful spending and creating better jobs.

• ME-02: The NRCC once again ties Democrat Emily Cain to Hillary Clinton, this time attacking her support for the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran. The spot frequently uses a clip of Cain declaring, “We need to uphold the deal,” to make its argument.

• MI-01: The NRCC says that, while Democrat Lon Johnson likes to talk about his local roots, “his real family is the Democrat Party.”

• MT-AL: In her first negative ad, Democrat Denise Juneau argues that Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke signed a pledge to sell off Montana’s public lands, and is now lying both about Juneau’s stance on that issue and about her support for the Second Amendment.

• NV-03: The NRCC calls Democrat Jacky Rosen the handpicked candidate of Washington liberals, and hits her for supporting Obamacare.

• NV-04: The NRCC praises what they say are Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy’s votes for balanced budgets while accusing Democrat Ruben Kihuen of voting for a massive tax hike while allowing a pay raise for himself. Once again, what the narrator demonizes as “the largest tax hike in Nevada history” was pushed by GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval and passed by both houses of the GOP-led legislature.

• NY-03: Democrat Tom Suozzi features a clip of John F. Kennedy declaring, “but knowing that here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own,” and the candidate pledges to “do what’s right beyond party politics.” Suozzi concludes by promising to be “a new kind of old fashioned Democrat.” 

• NY-19: Democrat Zephyr Teachout rides a boat across the Hudson River, pointing out that “at one end is Albany, where politicians like my opponent sold out to corporate interests,” and at the other end are the Wall Street companies that wrecked the economy and where Republican John Faso also worked. Teachout says that in between are strong communities on a polluted river that need jobs. The NRCC ties Teachout to the Iran nuclear deal, and repeatedly calls her “Professor Teachout” to unsubtly make the case that she’s an out-of-touch egghead.

• UT-04: Republican Rep. Mia Love features the daughter of a deceased veteran praising her after the VA denied the family military benefits.