EXCLUSIVE: An outside group that supports Republican causes is rising in 15 electoral districts controlled by House Democrats with announcements highlighting HR 1 – massive electoral reform and the Democrats’ campaign finance bill.
The American Action Network (AAN) on Monday is unveiling a new campaign to defend issues aimed at “the corrupt liberal campaign financing bill”. The ads, first shared with Fox News, will be seen in House districts with Democrats who are potentially vulnerable in next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans hope to win back the majority in the House they lost in the mid-term elections. 2018 term.
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The Democracy Reform Task Force announced last week that all House Democrats co-sponsored the legislation, which is formally known as the People’s Law 2021. Democrats say their broad electoral reform project, which is scheduled for voting on Wednesday, the right to vote and “clean up corruption” in politics will be expanded.
But Republicans criticize the move, saying it would lead to a takeover of the federal government in the elections and accuse Democrats of trying to change electoral rules to benefit.
AAN’s digital ads argue that the measure would give each member of Congress up to $ 5 million in public funding for their campaigns.
“Alert. Liberals want public money for their campaigns,” says the ad.
The ads urge members of the House of Democrats to “oppose HR 1”
The pro-GOP group American Action Network on Monday is unveiling a new campaign to defend issues aimed at the massive electoral reform of House Democrats and the campaign finance bill. The group’s digital ads will be seen in 15 House districts with Democrats who are potentially vulnerable in next year’s midterm elections.
Ads are being displayed in the Reps constituencies. Democrats. Tom O’Halleran (AZ-01), Stephanie Murray (FL-07), Carolyn Boudreaux (GA-07), Cindy Axne (IA-03), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Jared Golden (ME-02), Chris Pappas (NH-01), Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), Susan Wild (PA-07), Matt Cartwright (PA-08), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), Colin Allred (TX-32), Elaine Luria (VA-02) and Ron Kind (WI-03).
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AAN says that all 15 representatives, along with 36 other House Democrats, will be the target of a telephone campaign.
“This bill is nothing more than a shameful attempt to dump public funds into the campaign coffers of corrupt Washington liberals,” AAN President Dan Conston told Fox News. “Especially in a time of unparalleled economic and health crisis, public funds should be used to help end the plight of this pandemic – not to help Washington politicians get re-elected.”
Democrats stress that their bill “would improve access to the ballot box” by creating automatic electoral registration across the country and ensuring that individuals who have served their sentences for crime have their full voting rights restored. The project will also expand early voting and improve absentee voting, simplifying voting by mail. There was an increase in absentee voting during the primaries and last year’s general elections due to concerns about the health of in-person voting at polling stations amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The measure also commits Congress to delivering “full parliamentary and self-governing voting rights to residents of the District of Columbia, which only the state can provide,” prohibits purging of voter lists and aims to end “party gerrymandering” in electoral districts. .
Republicans have repeatedly argued that the drive to create a state in DC is a political move to secure two permanently Democratic seats in the U.S. Senate in what is a Democratic jurisdiction for Republicans of approximately nine to one.
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If passed by law, the bill would also increase federal support for the security of the voting system, increase oversight of electoral system providers, update the dissemination of political ads online, and require all organizations involved in political activities to disclose their major donors. , would create a multiple correspondence system for small dollar donations, which would be paid for by a new surcharge on “corporate law violators and wealthy tax cheaters”, tighten up rules on super PACs and reinforce the supervisory powers of the Electoral Commission Federal.
In a coup against former President Donald Trump, the bill would also require future presidents to disclose their tax returns – which Trump, breaking tradition, refused to do during his four years at the White House.
Republicans fiercely opposed an initial version of the bill during the last session of Congress.
The then Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, labeled it the “Democratic Politician Protection Act” and said in an article that Democrats were trying to “change the rules of American politics to benefit a party”.
On Sunday, the minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, of California, said at the time that the project would lead to a massive acquisition of the federal government that would undermine the integrity of the elections.
“We would lose our freedom,” McCarthy told Fox News on “Sunday Morning Futures”.
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AAN told Fox News that it is spending about five digits on digital ads, which it says will run on platforms like Google.
The new campaign follows another modest advertisement purchased by AAN a few weeks ago, highlighting the fuel of reopening schools in the midst of the pandemic.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.