2020 Senate elections: Endangered Republicans tout their records, not Trump, on the airwaves

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In North Carolina, Sen. Thom Tillis uses his commercials to reacquaint voters with his life story, highlighting his time working as a short-order cook while attending college at night. In her ads, Maine Sen. Susan Collins reminds constituents about the federal money she secured for diabetes research. And in one ad, Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner's family loads up an SUV with outdoor gear as he touts the new law he helped write to fund maintenance projects at national parks.

But, so far this year, one topic has been off the table for these endangered Republican incumbents: the elected official at the top of the ticket this fall. It's a stark illustration of President Donald Trump's declining poll numbers and the danger they could pose to the Republican majority in the Senate.

The stakes are high for Republicans: Democrats need a net gain of just four seats to flip the chamber (or three seats if the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, captures the White House, giving his vice president tie-breaking power in an evenly divided Senate.)

In all, the five Republican incumbents in races viewed as pure tossups by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report -- Tillis, Collins and Gardner, along with Arizona Sen. Martha McSally and Montana Sen. Steve Daines -- have run nearly 37,000 television spots between January 1 and July 9, according to a tally by Kantar's Campaign Media Analysis Group for CNN.

But fewer than 5% of those ads contained pro-Trump messages, the analysis found. And, during the period examined, Tillis, Collins and Gardner ran no ads mentioning the President.

None of the five incumbents in tossup races have run any ads during the 2020 cycle that criticize Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2020-senate-elections-endangered-republicans-tout-their-records-not-trump-on-the-airwaves/ar-BB16M1d5?li=BB141NW3&ocid=DELLDHP

[Dan]

1. I'm wondering

Seems like we should help these GOP candidates by running ads that identify their support for Trump these past three plus years. Their willingness to protect Trump over their oath of office to protect the nation.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Ask every one of them: "How did you vote on impeachment?"

at every goddamn interview. Every one.

Ask it over and over. Every Dem candidate should harp on this continuously and put it in ads.