Democrats smell blood in the water in North Carolina:
A Democratic super PAC is launching a new TV ad in North Carolina's Senate race Tuesday, targeting GOP Rep. Ted Budd on abortion.
Senate Majority PAC’s new ad is the group's first spot that directly attacks Budd. The group previously launched two TV ads defending Democrat Cheri Beasley against GOP attacks on her judicial record.
"Budd wants abortion outlawed, with no exceptions for rape or incest," a narrator says in the new ad, shared first with NBC News.
The ad is referencing an interview earlier in the campaign in which Budd suggested he would not support such exceptions to abortion bans.
“It’s a tragedy when somebody finds themself there, and I want to say, ‘Why would you want to add a second tragedy to an already very tough situation?’” Budd told Nexstar Media Group in May. “I don’t condemn anybody that’s ever been through that, but I want to say let’s not add more tragedy to a very tough situation.”
The ad then directs viewers to a website detailing Budd's views on the issue. The group is spending more than $700,000 on the TV ad, which will air in the Charlotte media market.
Here’s the latest polling on the race:
Meanwhile, Beasley is up with her new ad:
In a new ad that will air statewide today, U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley discusses her commitment to backing a new policy that would ban congressional stock trading. While there are rules designed to prevent congressional insider trading through mandated reporting, elected officials on both sides of the aisle routinely flout them.
“Sixty-four members of Congress—Republicans and Democrats—have broken a law to stop insider stock trading, yet Washington refused to do anything about it,” Beasley says in the ad. “Let’s ban members of congress from buying stocks all together. Senators should be working for you, not themselves.”
There’s already a bill, sponsored by Democrats Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, in the U.S. Senate that would ban congressional stock trading. The House reportedly is planning to introduce its own version this month.
Beasley’s ad is the latest in a series coinciding with her campaign’s Stand Up for North Carolina tour detailing how she plans to “hold politicians and the corporate interests in Washington accountable and put North Carolina first,” according to a campaign release.
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