Political Advertising
Democrats Gamble With Ads That Highlight Far-Right Candidates
The Pain of Redistricting: Representative Jerrold Nadler defeated his longtime congressional neighbor, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, after the powerful Manhattan Democrats’ districts were unexpectedly combined. A Post-Roe Test: The win for Pat Ryan, a Democrat, in a special election in New York’s Hudson Valley offers one of the clearest signs yet that abortion can be a powerful […]
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Dick Cheney Excoriates Trump in an Ad for His Daughter Liz Cheney
A new advertisement for Representative Liz Cheney’s re-election campaign features a leader of a bygone era in the Republican Party excoriating the leader of the current one. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual that was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Ms. Cheney’s father, former Vice President […]
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Democrats Face Deepening Peril as Republicans Seize on Inflation Fears
WASHINGTON — Triple-digit gasoline bills. Bulging hamburger prices. A Fourth of July holiday that broke the bank. Prices are rising at the fastest rate in four decades, a painful development that has given Republicans a powerful talking point just months ahead of the midterm elections. With control of Congress very much in play, Republicans are […]
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In Ad, Shotgun-Toting Greitens Asks Voters to Go ‘RINO Hunting’
Eric Greitens, a Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Missouri, released a violent new political advertisement on Monday showing himself racking a shotgun and accompanying a team of men armed with assault rifles as they stormed — SWAT team-style — into a home in search of “RINOs,” or Republicans in name only. “Join […]
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Gun Sellers Stoke Fears to Boost Weapon Sales
Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, one tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a young man interested in dating his daughter. It generated criticism, including from Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in […]
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North Carolina TV stations pull an attack ad against Cheri Beasley, a Democrat running for Senate.
Television stations in North Carolina made the unusual decision on Friday to take down an attack ad against Cheri Beasley, a Democratic Senate candidate, after complaints that the ad falsely accused Ms. Beasley of freeing a man convicted on charges of possessing lewd images of children when she served as chief justice of the North […]
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Ohio Senate Race Pits Trump and Son Against Big G.O.P. Group
Not long after Donald J. Trump was elected president, the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group that had opposed his 2016 campaign, reinvented itself as a reliable supporter, with the group’s president, David McIntosh, providing frequent counsel to Mr. Trump on important races nationwide. But this spring, as Mr. Trump faces critical tests of […]
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David McCormick’s Financial Disclosures in Senate Race Reveal His Wealth
We can say this much with confidence about David McCormick: The man is rich. In ads and campaign appearances, McCormick, who is running in the Republican primary for a Pennsylvania Senate seat, emphasizes his roots in Bloomsburg, a small town along the state’s Susquehanna River. But his personal financial disclosure statement, which is required of […]
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A Democratic Super PAC’s Ad Buy Shows a Widening Battle for House Control
WASHINGTON — The House Democrats’ main political action committee is spending nearly $102 million to reserve advertising spots in 50 media markets, from Bangor, Maine, to San Diego, Calif., a battlefield that is considerably larger and more expensive than it was in the past two congressional elections. The breadth of the congressional map reveals the […]
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