Cotton gives fellow Arkansas GOP Sen. Boozman shoutout as ‘conservative fighter’ in new ad

FIRST ON FOX: As he faces main challengers in his run for re-election this yr, Sen. John Boozman is getting a serving to hand from a high-profile fellow Arkansas Republican.

Sen. Tom Cotton calls Arkansas’ senior senator “our conservative fighter,” whereas starring in Boozman’s newest marketing campaign industrial, which was shared first with Fox Information Friday.

“Within the Military, we relied on our brothers. In Washington, I rely on John Boozman. We work as a crew, agreeing on practically each vote,” Cotton, an Military veteran who served in fight within the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, says within the advert. 

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Cotton, who’s constructed a big nationwide profile throughout his years in Congress, emphasizes within the spot that “John Boozman fights to safe our border. Fights to guard the unborn. Fights to cease Biden’s crushing inflation.”

And pointing to former President Donald Trump, who stays the preferred and influential politician within the Republican Celebration, Cotton spotlights that Boozman “has my assist and President Trump’s endorsement. I would like you to hitch me in voting for John Boozman.”

Boozman’s marketing campaign notes that that is the senator’s fourth industrial throughout his re-election bid and that the marketing campaign is spending $340,000 in Arkansas’ comparatively cheap media markets to run the brand new advert statewide, starting Saturday on TV, digital and radio.

The marketing campaign says it would proceed to be “heavy and regular” with advert buys till the state’s Might 24 main.

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The senator is going through main challenges from three different Republicans – former NFL participant and U.S. Military veteran Jake Bequette, Pastor Heath Loftis and Jan Morgan, a gun vary proprietor who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018. Fox Information was first to report in January {that a} tremendous PAC supporting Bequette bought practically $900,000 in TV airtime to run advertisements in assist of Bequette.

Cotton endorsed Boozman final yr, quickly after the senator introduced his re-election bid. 

Apart from the endorsements by Cotton and Trump, Boozman can be backed by former Trump White Home press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The daughter of former longtime Arkansas governor and former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is the clear front-runner to win this yr’s gubernatorial election within the state. 

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks throughout a Senate Armed Companies Committee listening to on the conclusion of navy operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations on Capitol Hill 
(Patrick Semansky)

Boozman additionally enjoys high-profile endorsements from Nationwide Proper to Life, the nation’s oldest and largest anti-abortion grassroots group; Arkansas Proper to Life; and, most just lately, the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation.

“I am grateful for the assist of grassroots conservatives and leaders, together with President Trump, Senator Cotton and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in addition to hundreds of Arkansans throughout the state,” Boozman stated in a press release as he showcased his conservative credentials. 

“These people know and belief that I’ll all the time stand as much as the novel left and battle for our shared values. That’s what Arkansans deserve, and it’s what they’ll proceed to anticipate from me as their sturdy, conservative voice in the US Senate.”

Boozman, first elected to the Senate in 2010 and simply re-elected in 2016, had a wholesome $3.5 million money available in his marketing campaign coffers initially of the yr. That included a $5,000 contribution final yr from Trump’s Save America political motion committee, which got here after Boozman’s main opponents entered the race.

The previous president carried the deeply purple state of Arkansas by 27 factors in his 2016 White Home victory and practically 28 factors in his 2020 re-election defeat.