house majority pac is hitting the air with its closing argument on tuesday: eight new tv ads that link gop house candidates to donald trump, whether they've rejected him or not. the almost identical ads mostly target voters in suburban districts which hillary clinton is likely to carry <u+2014> but where democratic house candidates have struggled to seal the deal with voters. they're designed to tie the republican candidates to trump's worst comments about women, including the 2005 "access hollywood" footage that was published at the beginning of october. story continued below the ads open with a mother and her daughters in a kitchen, with trump visible on a tv on the counter. "trump's just so disgusted and degrading," the narrator says in the ad targeting gop rep. erik paulsen of minnesota. "it just seems like he's invaded our lives. and he's the republican nominee for president. and now republican congressman paulsen is trying to run away from trump?" a quote of paulsen saying in may that he planned on voting for trump appears on the screen. "i mean, come on. we just can't vote for paulsen or trump." 2016 by michael crowley paulsen and four of the other republican candidates targeted in the ads <u+2014> reps. mike coffman of colorado, john katko of new york and will hurd of texas, along with brian fitzpatrick , the gop candidate for an open seat in the philadelphia suburbs <u+2014> broke with trump after the "access hollywood" tape came out. the other three targeted republicans <u+2014> mike gallagher , who's running for an open seat in wisconsin, and reps. david young of iowa and lee zeldin of new york <u+2014> have stuck with trump. house majority pac, democrats' biggest house-focused super pac, is spending $4.7 million in total to air the ads through election day, including $3.2 million in previously reserved airtime and $1.5 million in new spending. the ads hit the air on tuesday, with the exception of the one attacking hurd, which started airing last week. while clinton is likely to carry most of the targeted districts, the ads attacking gallagher and zeldin will air in districts where trump is running competitively. democrats in such districts shied away taking the risk of running ads bashing trump earlier in the cycle, but some started doing so in the final weeks of the race. tom nelson, the democrat running against gallagher, went up with an ad last month calling trump dangerous. by thomas wright by bill scher by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
house majority pac makes late push to rope republicans to trump - politico
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