Democrats Launch Massive Negative Ad Campaign Against GOP On Abortion

[babylonsister]

Democrats Launch Massive Negative Ad Campaign Against GOP On Abortion
Democrats are hammering Republicans in dozens of ads across the country on their opposition to abortion access.
Paul Blumenthal
Sep 17, 2022, 05:45 AM EDT


Democrats have zeroed in on the top issue to pummel Republicans with in their quest to win the 2022 midterm elections: the end of Roe v. Wade.

In dozens of ads backed by tens of millions of dollars, Democratic candidates, party committees and affiliated groups are attacking Republicans on the issue of abortion in key battleground races that will determine control of Congress, governorships and state legislatures.

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The ever-increasing ad avalanche on abortion signals that the conservative-majority Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn the nearly 50-year-old right to an abortion has flipped the issue on its head, forcing Republicans to answer for their unpopular anti-abortion positions as they are now actually becoming law.

“The threat to abortion rights used to be theoretical, but people now understand and believe the real impact — that candidates want to ban abortion and can ban abortion — and they are scared and they believe them,” said Jenny Lawson, president of Planned Parenthood Votes, the campaign arm of the pro-abortion rights group that has promised to spend $50 million on the midterm elections.

A Real-World Test Case

The decision to make the end of Roe the central negative attack line of the midterms follows from public and private polling showing that the Republican position on the issue is broadly and increasingly unpopular.


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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roe-abortion-2022-election_n_63235b4ee4b082746be7e326

[dalton99a]

1. Hang it around their necks - every damn one of them

[brer cat]

4. +1

[calimary]

14. + another 1 - MILLION.

[Demovictory9]

17. Plus 1

[Sky Jewels]

19. Hang it around their necks, and push them into the deep end of the pool.

[RobertDevereaux]

2. Make those dozens of ads HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of ads.

Make the motherfuckers pay!!!

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[mucifer]

5. We have been having some great ones in Illinois they

The repubs have been totally bashing us on immigration hate and fear mongering around releasing prisoners and new state crime policies.

It’s really ugly 😡

[ShazzieB]

12. Ugly is right. 😒

They are trying to convince voters all over the state that Gov. Pritzker wants to let ALL the offenders out of jail, and those offenders are going to bring "Chicago violence" to "your town"! It's idiotic, but it'll probably work on some people.

I think Repukes in this state are running scared. Their Trump-endorsed, RWNJ candidate for governor is massively unappealing to non-MAGA voters, and they know it. This current batch pf fear-mongering ads stinks of desperation, and it's likely to get worse by November.

[mucifer]

15. I get the sense WGN radio has been anti maga but

Now seems to be buying into some of the anti Pritzker anti immigration crap. They have a lot of fear mongering MAGA adds

[JohnSJ]

6. Good. They have to and do it on everything, including how the republicans want to eliminate

social security, medicare, medicaid, healthcare support, etc. etc. etc.

[calimary]

18. They REALLY need to lean on that one!

That’s YOUR Social Security! That you worked all those years to pay into. That’s YOUR money. And…

THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE IT ALL AWAY FROM YOU AND CUT YOU ADRIFT.

Messaging!

[JohnSJ]

20. YES +++

[lpbk2713]

7. I'm all for it.

People need to know.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

8. I did notice yesterday that Katie Porter is running strong new ads declaring her commitment to

protecting abortion rights in there re-election campaign.

Saw the ad twice yesterday.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I thought that ad in Texas where the doctor has to call Governor Abbott was amazing.

That should be the template for our ads.

The Republicans raised Cain about "Death Panels". It turns out they just wanted to be the ones to sit on those Death Panels.

[Hieronymus Phact]

10. Great

and when the republicans get back off their heels from this, hit them with another barrage about their public threats to social security and medicare.

[Traildogbob]

11. Pair these

With the same intensity adds stating, Scott, Graham, Rubio and Johnson intend to end Social Security and Medicare. That messaging alone can devastate GQP. And do not depend on Sinclair owed local media to assist. Get the message out. On every damn media site out there. And pound it over and over and over. Women and seniors vote and vote and vote. And white supremacy, national religion will NOT be a message that will win either. If our FUCKING VOTES are even tallied.
Bury the GQP on trump properties. And allow visitors to piss on em all.

[gratuitous]

13. One measure of this campaign's effectiveness

How loudly Republicans squeal about having their own words and actions against them.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. Battle cry of this election: Roe your vote, up and down the ballot!

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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