NEW: @CLFSuperPAC, the House GOP’s top outside group, is booking $125M in fall TV/digital ad buys across 48 media markets
This is just the initial round but it’s already more than they spent on ads in the entire 2020 cycle. And $111M of it is for offense politico.com/news/2022/04/2…
A sign of how good House Rs think the environment is for them >> CLF is booking air time in seats Joe Biden won by double digits in 2020
Examples:
Jahana Hayes in #CT05
Katie Porter in #CA47
Mike Levin in #CA49
the open #CA13
And here's a full market breakdown of where CLF is spending
Biggest buys:
$15M in Las Vegas for Titus + Lee or Horsford
$8.1M in Phoenix for O'Halleran + Stanton or Schweikert
$7.3M in Philly for Wild + Fitzpatrick
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I see a lot of convos today about Marjorie Taylor Greene's past controversial comments, thanks to @CNN & @mmfa
McCarthy told @axios he is disturbed/plans to speak with her
This narrative misses crucial context: NONE of this is new to political observers/GOP leaders. A thread >>
On June 17 ( a week after the June 9 #GA14 primary but well before an Aug 11 runoff) @MZanona & I reported on a trove of her racist/Islamophobic/QAnon comments
MTG is a product of MAGA internet. She built a following posting hours of videos of this stuff politico.com/news/2020/06/1…
Among the worst MTG comments:
She called the '18 midterms “an Islamic invasion of our government”
She said Dems are “trying to keep the black people in a modern-day form of slavery”
“The most mistreated group of people in the United States today are white males"