Senators Warnock and Hassan vote to give their own campaigns access to millions in taxpayer money.
Washington, D.C. – The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) will launch two ads this week targeting Senators Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) on their votes to advance S.1, the “Corrupt Politicians Act.”
Statement from NRSC Chairman Rick Scott: “Raphael Warnock and Maggie Hassan not only voted to put Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Washington bureaucrats in charge of their states’ elections. They also voted to give their own campaigns access to tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money. Georgia’s and New Hampshire’s Senators aren’t looking out for their constituents’ interests but rather looking to help their own re-election chances. Ironically, it will be tonight’s vote that Georgians and Granite Staters will remember when they vote Senators Warnock and Hassan out of office.”
View the ads here:
What They Are Saying In Georgia and New Hampshire
Senate Republicans try to weaponize Warnock’s support for voting overhaul
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Greg Bluestein
Senate Republicans launched an attack ad assailing U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock for backing a federal voting overhaul on Tuesday shortly after it was blocked by a filibuster, part of an intensifying effort to weaponize the Democrat’s support for the measure ahead of his re-election campaign.
The ad, backed by a six-figure week-long buy, frames the proposal as “welfare for politicians” and calls on Republicans to donate to the National Republican Senatorial Committee to “stop” him from pushing more voting changes.
NRSC to launch ad slamming Hassan for backing public financing provision of For the People Act
WMUR
By: John DiStaso
The National Republican Senatorial Committee plans to waste no time attacking New Hampshire U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan after she joined her Democratic colleagues Tuesday in voting to advance the sweeping federal campaign finance and elections reform bill known as the For the People Act.
A new ad – which the NRSC says is the subject of a six-figure television and digital buy to begin later this week — focuses on the public financing provision of the bill, which Hassan supports.
With the Senate split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, Hassan is among a handful of Democratic incumbent senators viewed by Republicans and Democrats as vulnerable in next year’s election as she seeks a second term. Even Hassan’s own campaign described her as “the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent” in a fundraising email Tuesday.
Hassan joined Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and the entire Senate Democratic caucus Tuesday in voting to allow debate on the For the People Act to proceed. But as expected, the vote fell 10 votes short of the necessary filibuster-proof 60-vote threshold. The bill passed the House in early March.
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