Tag: battleground
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Trump is veering off the battleground map to blue states: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, politics reporters Matt Dixon and Allan Smith explore why Donald Trump is set to campaign in heavily Democratic…
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Americans for Prosperity super PAC launches battleground Senate ad blitz
Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC affiliated with the Koch network of political advocacy groups, is launching a slate of new ads backing Republicans across multiple Senate battleground races, spending $8.75 million on a campaign focused largely on issues like the economy, inflation, and immigration. With mail ballots already being mailed out in dozens…
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Trump announces Latter-day Saints coalition in push for battleground voters
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “Latter-Day Saints for Trump” coalition less than a month before Election Day, as the campaign looks to shore up support among a key voting bloc in which defections could be particularly damaging in key western battlegrounds. Among the leaders heading the coalition are four prominent Utah Republicans:…
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Barack Obama cuts a new ad for Elissa Slotkin in battleground Michigan Senate race
Former President Barack Obama is wading into the Senate race in Michigan, endorsing Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and starring in a new ad for her as some voters start to receive absentee ballots in the critical state. It’s the first time this election that voters will see a Senate ad from Obama as Democrats try…
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Barack Obama to kick off battleground state blitz for Harris next week in Pennsylvania
Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh next week, his first foray into the election as a battleground-state surrogate. The event, according to a senior Harris campaign official, will launch a larger effort by Obama, who intends to ramp up his campaigning for Harris in the final stretch of…
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Democrats lean on doctors in battleground ads on abortion — even when they’re not from the district
House Democrats need to flip just four seats to take the chamber’s majority in November, and super PACs are going all out on the airwaves in battleground districts, blasting Republicans over abortion and reproductive rights in ads. Some of the ads feature doctors speaking passionately about abortion and saying that Republican candidates shouldn’t represent “us”…