MO-02: Democrats seek to flip suburban St. Louis seat in Congress
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Democratic groups are hoping to flip a Republican-held suburban St. Louis congressional district, with two of them spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on new TV ads to support the challenger.
State Sen. Jill Schupp, a Democrat from Creve Coeur, is challenging four-term Republican incumbent Ann Wagner in Missouri’s 2nd District. Wagner narrowly held her seat in 2018, beating relatively unknown Democrat Cort VanOstran by just 4 percentage points. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report calls this year’s race a tossup.
The pro-Democratic House Majority PAC on Monday announced it was spending another $11 million for ads in several districts across the country, including $1.3 million in the St. Louis market.
“We are six months into a pandemic with no plan in sight and voters are tired of the chaos created by Donald Trump,” Executive Director Abby Curran Horrell said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Tuesday released two new TV ads that characterize Wagner as a pawn for big corporations and special interests, and citing her votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The group said last week that it was spending nearly $500,000 on ads in St. Louis.
It’s not clear how much of the Democratic groups’ ads are aimed at Wagner’s district. Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, whose district includes the area of Illinois near St. Louis, also is seen as vulnerable and some of the advertising could go toward supporting his Democratic challenger, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan.
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