Republicans mount ad blitz on impeachment, making some vulnerable Democrats nervous MSN, Dec 7, 2019, The Washington Post
Republicans are dramatically outspending Democrats on impeachment-related ads on Facebook and television, illustrating how fully the GOP has embraced the issue as a political winner as public opinion remains split on the House effort to remove the president.
The ad blitz has worried some Democrats in swing districts who are being painted as do-nothing, pro-impeachment radicals. The Democrats have been urging party leaders for weeks to strike back with their own countermessage, to no avail.
Over the past month, GOP candidates have used anti-impeachment messages to try to recruit new supporters, and independent big-money groups boosting Republicans have launched roughly $10 million in ads aimed at Democrats in districts that President Trump won in 2016.
Some of those vulnerable Democrats, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about private conversations, said party leaders told them the cavalry is coming but shared no firm date.
House Majority Forward, a group with close ties to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), launched a $1.5 million television ad campaign in support of some of them, but it lasted for just two weeks as the inquiry unfolded at the beginning of October.
The difference is especially stark on Facebook, where more than 100 congressional Republican incumbents and challengers and national pro-GOP groups ran anti-impeachment ads in the past month — roughly three times the number of such ads run on the Democratic side, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
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Other Democrats said ad spending by GOP groups varies by district and that only a handful of markets are getting enough money to reach a significant audience.
“There’s a strong correlation between cheap markets getting more ads and expensive markets getting fewer,” said a Democratic strategist from a group tracking GOP ad spending, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share internal findings. “So this is less a strategic play and more geared to driving a national media narrative around the ad buys.”
Still, some Democrats are getting impatient.
One was told to expect an ad blitz during the holidays touting the expected vote in the coming week on a sweeping bill to lower prescription drug prices. But many of those representing GOP-leaning districts have pushed for faster help than that.
HERE THEY ARE: The 31 DEMOCRATS in Trump Districts Who Will LOSE THEIR SEAT If They Vote to Impeach Trump in this Nefarious Schiff Sham Gateway Pundit, Nov 22, 2019
Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.) Lucy McBath’s (D-Ga.) Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) Abby Finkenauer (D-Iowa) Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa) Cindy Axne’s (D-Iowa) Jared Golden (D-Maine) Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) Angie Craig (D-Minn.) Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) Susie Lee’s (D-Nev.) Chris Pappas’s (D-N.H.) Jefferson Van Drew (D-N.J.) Andy Kim (D-N.J.) Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) Max Rose (D-N.Y.) Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.) Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.) Kendra Horn(D-Okla.) Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.) Ben McAdams (D-Utah) Elaine Luria’s (D-Va.) Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) Ron Kind (D-Wis.)