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Trump Super PAC Continues Air Assault on Tester
America First Action, a super PAC aligned with President Donald Trump, is going on the air in Montana with another TV ad attacking Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
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America First Action, a super PAC aligned with President Donald Trump, is going on the air in Montana with another TV ad attacking Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
Majority Forward is the affiliated nonprofit of Senate Majority PAC, the super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the Senate.
The joint spending will come through New American Jobs Fund, a super PAC through which the LCV Victory Fund and USW Works first partnered on voter mobilization in 2016.
“The Republicans tend to get very excited about this and then get over their skis,” said Chris Hayden, communications director for the Senate Majority PAC, which is trying to elect Democrats.
The state Democratic Party has already tarred Rosendale as “Maryland Matt,” a moniker that a super PAC called Principles First PAC used in TV advertising against him in the primary, too.
An outside group called Principles First PAC is airing a TV ad calling Rosendale “Maryland Matt,” adopting the same moniker the state Democratic Party has used against him.
In Montana, a Democratic super PAC went on the air to defend Sen. Jon Tester against attacks from the right over his unwillingness to undo the 2010 health care law.
A Democratic super PAC is defending Montana Sen. Jon Tester from a recent attack by Americans for Prosperity with a TV ad of its own.
A number of state Democratic parties and committees got a helping hand from a PAC affiliated with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the last fundraising quarter.
The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, pledged to hold Tester accountable.
Great America PAC and the Club for Growth have backed Blackburn.
Aggressively championing the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision and unbridled super PAC barons like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson, McConnell weakened the Republican Party and made it vulnerable
The Club for Growth PAC endorsed Rosendale several hours after his announcement, calling him “the kind of economic conservative we need in Washington today.”
Evan Jenkins announced his senatorial campaign in early May, supporters of state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey created a super PAC to boost his candidacy for Senate.
Banking on the unpopularity of national Democrats in Montana, ads from a GOP super PAC have attempted to portray Quist as allied with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the party.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC backed by House GOP leadership, has been the biggest spender in this race, dropping about $2.7 million.
The PAC spent more than $15 million on House and Senate races in the 2016 cycle, helping elect 15 new members.
The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC allied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made a similar comparison when it attacked Montana Democrat Jon Tester for voting against a waiver to allow