Liberal group Protect Our Care is running a digital ad campaign targeting 11 House Republicans for backing the GOP reconciliation package.
The ads, part of the group’s $10 million “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign, slam the battleground lawmakers for supporting “the biggest cut to Medicaid in history.”
“More than 13 million Americans could lose health care — seniors, veterans and children with disabilities,” the ad’s narrator says, adding Republicans want “to give another huge tax break to billionaires and big corporations.”
The 11 lawmakers targeted are Republican Reps. David Schweikert (Ariz.), David Valadao (Calif.), Young Kim (Calif.), Ken Calvert (Calif.), Nick LaLota (N.Y.), Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Ryan Mackenzie (Pa.), Rob Bresnahan (Pa.) and Dan Newhouse (Wash.).
Here’s a link to the ad going after Bresnahan, a freshman who knocked off former Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) in November.
The effort is the latest Democratic initiative targeting at-risk Republicans over their support for the sweeping reconciliation bill. Democrats have vowed that the passage of the bill will ensure that Republicans lose their slender majority in the midterms.
Tester time. Former Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is joining Unite the Country as a senior adviser. Tester will help “guide the organization’s strategic efforts in 2026 and beyond.”
Unite the Country is a Democratic super PAC that is seeking to restore Democrats’ ties to working and middle-class voters.
Tester, a three-term senator who lost his reelection bid last November, is also a political analyst for MSNBC.
In other ad news: Climate group EDF Action is launching a billboard campaign attacking House Republicans for supporting efforts to repeal clean energy tax credits through the reconciliation package. The billboards go after Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Mark Harris (R-N.C.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.).
EDF Action is running 18 video billboards around Charlotte Douglas International Airport that slam Harris for voting to raise the power bills of North Carolinians. The anti-Spartz video billboards have a similar message and are on display at four locations around Indianapolis International Airport.
The Perry billboards are in 27 locations across the battleground 10th District and accuse Perry of costing Pennsylvania jobs.
Democratic groups like Protect Our Jobs are also going after House Republicans on the clean energy tax credit front.
