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Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan vows that she’ll “fight and never back down” to protect legalized abortion in her latest TV ad running in her home state of New Hampshire.
Hassan was the first Democratic senator from a key battleground state who’s facing a challenging reelection in November’s midterms to go up with a commercial on abortion in wake of last week’s monumental move by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to upend the landmark half century old Roe v. Wade ruling.
“This decision catapults us backwards, and there are politicians like Mitch McConnell, who’ve made it clear that their objective is to ban abortion nationwide,” Hassan charges in her ad. “We will not be intimidated. I will fight and never back down. I’m Maggie Hassan and I approve this message because protecting our personal freedoms isn’t just what’s right for New Hampshire, it’s what makes us New Hampshire.”
Hassan ad is one of a slew of spots from Democratic incumbents and candidates running this year, as well as party committees and outside groups, to start running this week in Senate, House and gubernatorial races.
The political wing of Emily’s List, a group that works to elect female Democratic candidates who support abortion, also went up with an ad praising Hassan for pushing “for a federal law to protect a woman’s right to make her own personal decisions.”
New Hampshire’s Senate primary isn’t until early September, so Hassan doesn’t know which Republican challenger she’ll be facing off with in November. But she’s been heavily targeted by the GOP, which views her as vulnerable as she seeks a second term.
But in states where the GOP nominees have already been determined, Democrats are taking aim.
A commercial launched this week in the key swing state of Pennsylvania targets Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor and cardiac surgeon known as Dr. Oz, who last month won the GOP Senate nomination in the open seat race.
“I am pro-life. I have been very clear on my position,” Mehmet Oz says in a clip in the ad, which was put up by the political wing of Planned Parenthood.
The narrator in spot charges that Oz “wants to make abortion a crime in Pennsylvania.”
A separate political wing of Planned Parenthood took to the airwaves in battleground Wisconsin to take aim at GOP Sen. Ron Johnson over the issue. Democrats consider Johnson the most vulnerable Republican senator running for re-election this year.
The political wing of Emily’s List is up with a spot in Nevada that highlights the anti-abortion stance of former state attorney general Adam Laxalt, who’s this year’s GOP Senate nominee.
And Washington State Democratic Sen. Patty Murray launched a commercial that uses a clip of Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley saying “I am 100% pro-life.”
Democrats also took to the air to run abortion ads this week in House races and in gubernatorial battles — including in Illinois, where Gov. J. B. Pritzker uses clips of … (Read more)
