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$2M Ad Blitz In Support Of GOP Health Plan Targets Vulnerable Republicans' Districts
An outside GOP group aligned with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled a $2 million TV ad blitz on Tuesday defending the legislation to replace ObamaCare ahead of the highly anticipated Congressional Budget Office analysis of its effects. American Action Network鈥檚 ad will run in 21 House districts and nationally on MSNBC鈥檚 鈥淢orning Joe鈥 to tout the GOP鈥檚 bill, known as the American Health Care Act. (Marcos, 5/23)
A conservative advocacy group will run television ads thanking six California Republicans for voting for the GOP bill to roll back the Affordable Care Act. All 14 Republicans in California's congressional delegation voted for the bill, called the Affordable Health Care Act, when it passed the House without Democratic support last month. Democrats have pledged to make it a campaign issue. (Wire, 5/22)
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Montana鈥檚 one and only seat in the House of Representatives is up for grabs, and in the final weekend before Thursday鈥檚 special election, the underdog Democrat was hammering the Republican health care bill in TV ads. The ads open with Democrat Rob Quist asking, 鈥淒id you know half of all Montanans have a preexisting condition?鈥 He then attacks Republican challenger Greg Gianforte for supporting the House-passed American Health Care Act, which would allow states to drop preexisting conditions protections. (Whitney, 5/23)
