WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Democrats’ campaign arm is returning to Kentucky airwaves with a new ad in the final week of the costly Senate race.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Tuesday released an ad criticizing Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for spending three decades in Washington while his Kentucky constituents struggled to make ends meet. The ad features a teacher who says McConnell voted for pay raises for himself but opposed increases to the federal minimum wage.
The DSCC stopped airing ads in Kentucky two weeks ago. Last week they said they were returning to voters’ televisions. This week, they released this ad.
McConnell is locked in a tight race against Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes. Both sides and their allies have spent almost $68 million in that race.
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The sad thing is that the DSCC had to do this just to show support for Grimes, not because an ad this late in the game will do any good. The ad itself will not result in a single additional vote, but if DSCC had allowed the idea to take root that it thought Grimes could not win, that would have doomed her.
Well, better late than never. It may swing a few more votes, but now it’s GOTV crunch time.
I don’t know about dooming her. The “pull out” was overstated, they never stopped spending money on the GOTV efforts, for example. But the media with people like Sahil jumped all over it and started yelling the sky was falling.
They are moving the ad money back because they now realize SD is a lost cause. Its just moving money around the chessboard, republicans are doing the exact same thing.