Democrats finally focus on economy and crime in last midterm campaign ads
by Sarah Westwood, Investigative Reporter |
October 30, 2022 02:00 AM
Democratic candidates and groups are hitting the airwaves in the final days of the midterm election cycle with campaign ads that hammer home a focus on issues considered more favorable to Republicans, such as inflation and crime.
Campaigns and outside spending groups have just over a week to make their closing arguments to voters before Election Day brings what is widely expected to be a wave of Republican victories.
While Democrats had spent months trying broadly to center the conversation around abortion, some of their more recent shots in the ad wars have featured a return to the kitchen table issues that voters have told pollsters they care about more.
In the Oregon governor’s race, Democrat Tina Kotek has focused some of her final ads on distancing herself from Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and rebutting charges of leniency toward homelessness from her GOP opponent, Christine Drazan.
Brown is the most unpopular governor in the country.
“Christine Drazan’s ads? They’re just not true,” a narrator intones at the opening of an ad supporting Kotek in mid-October. “Tina Kotek called for a homeless state of emergency nearly three years ago. Not Kate Brown. Not Christine Drazan.”
Kotek had until now focused much of her campaign on abortion.
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