The Senate Republican campaign is launching its first attack in Michigan’s Senate race on Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin on pandemic relief spending, according to an ad first shared with NBC News.
Slotkin easily won his party’s Tuesday primary, setting up a race against former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers in November. And Republicans are wasting no time in attacking Slotkin, who is running for a third term in a race that will be key for control of the Senate.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s first independent spending ad of the election cycle is underway A $10 million purchase In the Michigan race.
The NRSC advertisementIt will operate on TV, radio and digital platforms, targeting and criticizing Slotkin’s support for government spending during the coronavirus pandemic. his support for a measure providing incentive checks to millions of people as well as prisoners.
The ad mentions that the incentive checks buyers Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was includedaccused of sexually assaulting hundreds of girls and women on the national team and in Michigan and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted.
“Elissa Slotkin voted for wasteful spending that drove inflation through the roof and made life unaffordable for Michigan families,” NRSC spokeswoman Maggie Abboud said in a statement. “Larry Nassar and Boston Marathon Bomber Benefit from Slotkin’s Politics – Michiganders Are Upset.”
Federal judges ruled Tsarnaev and Nassar transfer stimulus payments, as well as other funds in their accounts to the victims.
Slotkin said the pandemic is “the number one threat to the health and economic security of Michiganders right now,” while supporting the pandemic relief measure in early 2021.
“That said, there are aspects of this bill that I don’t like,” Slotkin said said in the statement on time. “As with the previous COVID relief packages we’ve reviewed, it’s far from perfect. I would have preferred a more targeted distribution of the stimulus checks, and we have narrowly tailored this package for the relief of COVID.”
Slotkin has faced attacks over his support for government spending while seeking re-election to the House in 2022, one of the most expensive races in the country. He beat then-state Sen. Tom Barrett by 5 percentage points.