House Democrats need to flip just four seats to win the chamber majority in November, and super PACs are hitting the airwaves in battleground states, blasting Republicans on abortion and reproductive rights in ads.
Some ads feature doctors speaking passionately about abortion and saying that Republican candidates should not represent “us” or “our” communities in Congress. But in at least four cases, House Majority PAC, a super PAC aligned with House Democratic leadership, featured Republican-leaning doctors in their ads who didn’t live in the district they were advertising.
In two of the ads targeting voters in New Mexico’s 2nd and Arizona’s 6th districts, doctors accuse Republicans of working to limit access to abortion, but do not specifically name the Republicans who represent them.
In the other two ads, one in Colorado’s 8th District and one in Oregon’s 5th DistrictDoctors featured in House Majority PAC ads argued that Colorado GOP state Rep. Gabe Evans “should never represent us in Congress” and “can’t be trusted with our future.” [GOP Rep.] Lori Chavez DeRemer” in Oregon, referring more directly to Republicans who might represent those districts.
Speaking in the ad against Evans, University of Colorado OB-GYN clinical practice associate professor Dr. Emily Schneider lives in Colorado’s District 6, not District 8, according to publicly available property records.
Obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. speaking against Chavez-DeRemer. And Michelle Berlin-Lowe lives not on the battlefield, but in Oregon’s 1st District. 5th, according to publicly available property records.
In two ads targeting New Mexico and Arizona voters, Dr. Dr. Gynecologist at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. Destinie Marquez spoke out against former GOP Rep. Yvette Herrell. tells the audience“As a doctor, I vowed to help anyone in need. But Yvette Herrell believes that women who are victims do not deserve care.
Marquez lives in New Mexico’s 1st District, not 2nd, and attended President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress this year. as a guest of Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, Democratic-Republican.
In the announcement Targeting voters in Arizona’s 6th District, where GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani is running for re-election against former state Sen. Kirsten Engel, Dr. Sigrid Williams told the audience, “A politician like Juan Ciscomani in Roe v. Wade, we need to call him… Keep the state out of our personal business. Get Juan Ciscoman out of Congress.”
According to publicly available property records, Williams lives in Arizona’s 7th District, not the 6th, where he represents Ciscoman.
The road to a majority in the House of Representatives passes through the four districts where these ads are aired. There are four rated as “toss-up” competitions Nonpartisan Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. And in the 2022 midterm elections, races in all four districts were decided by 2 percentage points or less.
The campaigns show how abortion has become a big deal A win-win issue for Democrats, especially since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022 and the national right to abortion. Both since then doctors and patients often become primary personal informants On abortion for Democrats.
A majority of voters after the 2022 midterm elections In an NBC News exit poll said they trust Democrats more than Republicans on abortion. Democrats beat expectations in the House and retained control of the Senate that year.
But House Republicans blasted the PAC over the ads, calling them misleading and accuses the group of spreading false information about GOP officials and candidates.
“After destroying the economy and opening the border to violent criminals and drugs, extreme House Democrats are grasping at straws by spreading lies about the reasonable Republican position on women’s health. But what’s even more terrifying is this: [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries’ super PAC can’t even find local doctors willing to repeat their lies,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Will Reinert told NBC News.
Marquez, Williams and Berlin-Lowe did not respond to requests for comment.
In a text to NBC News, Schneider confirmed that he lives in Colorado’s 6th district, not the 8th, where Evans is running.
“I take care of patients from all over, so I did it because my patients live in every county,” Schneider said.
“Unfortunately, Republicans like Juan Ciscomani, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Yvette Herrell and Gabe Evans have made relentless efforts to ban abortion across the country,” House Majority PAC communications director CJ Warnke said in a statement to NBC News. Their efforts to endanger women and punish doctors will affect everyone everywhere, and HMP will continue to inform voters about their extremist agenda throughout the fall.”
This isn’t the first time the House campaign has advertised on both sides of the aisle and the characters they include. – rated as deceptive.
The Congressional Leadership Foundation, the main A super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership has also come under fire for campaign advertising Last month, a Republican staffer was shown beating Democratic congressional candidate Janelle Bynum in Oregon’s 5th District.
The employee in the ad currently lives in the state’s 4th district.
Another competitive race in Pennsylvania’s 7th District was rated a “tossup” by the Cook Political Report, HMP published an ad Jeff Potts, who wears a police badge and claims, “We are fighting fentanyl in our communities and [Democratic Rep.] Susan Wild has our back.”
Potts then talked about the Wild’s support of law enforcement at various levels and agencies. But Later, the New York Post reported Potts said he was not a police officer and that the badge he was wearing was fake.
Potts is an “assistant officer” with limited police powers and no authority to arrest individuals, the Post said.
Luma County Sheriff Mike Eby, in New Mexico’s 2nd District, condemned the group for using a photo of himself with Vasquez. in a campaign ad.
“Recently, Democratic Congressman Gabe Vasquez and his Washington allies used my image in a political ad… I did not consent to the use of my image and I do not and have never supported Gabe Vasquez in Congress. to him,” Eby said in a video.
The ad features former Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos speaking in favor of Vasquez.
And This was reported by The New York Times last week Former Army Green Beret Derrick Anderson, a Republican candidate in Virginia, posted pictures of him posing with a non-family member and three children on the Internet.
The footage includes a photo of Anderson smiling with his family and a video of the group sitting around a dinner table. However, the images have not yet been used in paid campaign ads.