Top pro-Senate Democrat super PAC spending big bucks to blast GOP challenger in key swing state over abortion

FIRST ON FOX: The main tremendous PAC supporting Democratic senators and candidates is taking purpose on the Republican difficult Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan this November in New Hampshire with a serious advert blitz on the flamable concern of abortion.

The TV business from the Senate Majority PAC, which was shared first with Fox Information on Thursday, spotlights a remark by former Military Gen. Don Bolduc, the GOP nominee within the small however essential common election battleground state, the place he praised the blockbuster transfer by the Supreme Court docket’s conservative majority to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Democrats have been focusing on Republicans operating within the midterm elections over the difficulty within the three months because the excessive courtroom opinion despatched the battle over legalized abortion again to the states. 

The advert by the group aligned with Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer makes use of an audio recording of Bolduc, on the day of the June 24 Supreme Court docket ruling, saying “why don’t we simply rejoice that one proper now,” which elicited cheers from the conservative viewers the candidate was addressing.

The spot additionally highlights a clip from Bolduc throughout a radio interview a few days later stressing that “you don’t compromise on the difficulty of life,” as properly an audio recording of Bolduc talking at a neighborhood Republican committee assembly final December saying “I’m not going to vote opposite to pro-life.”

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The business ends with a video clip of Bolduc in a neighborhood TV interview saying “recover from it” as he commented on Hassan’s full courtroom press towards him over the abortion concern.

Senate Majority PAC tells Fox Information it’s spending a large $3.7 million to run the TV spot statewide in New Hampshire, on the Boston, Manchester, Portland, Maine, and Burlington, Vermont media markets. 

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Republicans view Hassan, a former governor, as weak as she seeks a second six-year time period within the Senate, in a race that’s one in all a handful throughout the nation that can doubtless decide if the GOP wins again the chamber’s majority within the midterm election. Hassan, on the marketing campaign path and in her advertisements, has been spotlighting the difficulty of abortion.

Hours after Bolduc narrowly received the Senate GOP nomination in New Hampshire’s Sept. 13 main, Hassan’s marketing campaign went up with a TV advert charging that “if Don Bolduc and Congressional Republicans take management of the U.S. Senate they might push for a nationwide ban on abortion — a ban with no exceptions.”

And the narrator within the new Senate Majority PAC advert claims that “Bolduc would give [Senate Republican Leader] Mitch McConnell the ability to ban abortion nationwide.”

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However Buldoc instructed Fox Information instantly after capturing the GOP nomination that if he have been within the Senate, he wouldn’t assist a proposal, unveiled earlier this month by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to implement a 15-week federal abortion ban.

“No, I’m not going to assist it as a result of it is senseless. The Supreme Court docket has already determined that it is a state concern. The states have it. That’s the place it must be. Girls on each side of the difficulty will getter a greater voice on the state degree,” Bolduc stated.

Former Military Gen. Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire, speaks at a New Hampshire GOP unity breakfast, on Sept. 15, 2022 in Harmony, N.H.
(Fox Information )

Whereas that is the primary time Senate Majority PAC has launched advertisements within the common election marketing campaign in New Hampshire, it did meddle within the Republican Senate main. The group spent over $3 million to run advertisements focusing on state Senate President Chuck Morse, whom many Democrats seen as a stronger common election candidate than Bolduc, who has struggled with fundraising throughout his 2020 and 2022 runs for the Senate.

Bolduc, who ran within the main as a populist and an outsider, edged the extra mainstream conservative Morse by a razor-thin margin in a crowded discipline of Republican Senate candidates.

New Hampshire is simply one of many many battleground states the place Senate Majority PAC is spending massive bucks to launch advertisements. The group’s reserved almost $140 million to run spots within the Granite State in addition to Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.

The Senate is cut up 50/50 between the 2 main events, however the Democrats management the bulk due to the tie breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris, by way of her constitutional position as president of the Senate. Meaning the GOP wants a internet achieve of only one seat in November to win again the bulk it misplaced when it was swept in Georgia’s twin Jan. 5, 2021 Senate runoff elections.