GOP group previews attacks in IN, WV and OH Senate
BY BEN KAMISAR - 05/09/18 09:15 AM EDT
Republican opposition research firm America Rising is storming ahead after Tuesday's primaries, launching a warning shot at vulnerable Democrats now have that their Republican opponents officially have the party' nominations.
In a new memo to donors sent Wednesday morning and obtained by The Hill, top America Rising executives Joe Pounder and Alexandra Smith sent donors an early look at their strategy to attack Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.V.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio).
All three senators are on the GOP target list after President Trump won their states in 2016. The group plans to paint the lawmakers as too conservative for their state's red-leaning electorates.
"The combination of opposition research and rapid response is the most effective way to define a candidate and influence the trajectory of a race. America Rising PAC is prepared to deploy our research to exploit the vulnerabilities of Senators Manchin, Donnelly, and Brown to voters in their states who overwhelmingly supported the President," the two write in the memo, noting they have more than 1,600 pages of opposition research on the three senators and have tracked them across tens of thousands of miles.
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