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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D.-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R.-Ky., have struck a deal to include the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), according to Axios. If the deal holds, it will move this essential piece of legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk. The NDAA must pass by year’s end to fund America’s military. The JCPA would allow news organizations to band together to negotiate fair fees from online platforms, such as Facebook and Google, who derive ad revenue from the hard work of newsrooms — mostly small, local, community-rooted...

Former President Donald Trump released an ad urging voters to support America First Republican candidates to “help save America,” just days before next week’s midterm elections. The video starts with audio of Trump saying that next week’s election is a “referendum” on President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D), and Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D).” “The radical left Democrat Congress is destroying our country,” Trump said. “You’re going to elect an incredible slate of True America First Republicans up and down the ballot.” The video displayed text encouraging voters to vote Republican while the montage of Trump’s audio...

This is from when he ran for the Senate in 2016 and lost the primary, but it is making the rounds on the interweb again.

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman recreated the classic 1979 Coca-Cola advertisement featuring football legend ‘Mean’ Joe Greene in a bizarre video during his failed 2016 U.S. Senate campaign. The original Coca-Cola advertisement began with Greene, a Pittsburgh Steelers legend, hobbling down the tunnel after a game when a child approaches him to offer a coke. Greene accepts it and tosses this child his jersey, saying, “thanks, kid.”

'Our American Century' released a new campaign ad against John Fetterman as a parody of the 'Wellerman' sea shanty.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will completely pull all his super PAC’s money out of New Hampshire, effectively sabotaging Republican Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc. The McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund will pull all its ads off television starting October 25, Shane Goldmacher of the News York Times reported Friday afternoon. The decision will rip $5.6 million away from Gen. Bolduc’s candidacy and greatly help incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH).

@Douglas Mastriano - Hope and Inspiration for PA

Incredible Mastriano adSee you tonight, Erie!Details -> https://t.co/h32eLqT3vv pic.twitter.com/DuP8eSrws9— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 14, 2022

Former President Donald Trump’s PAC will air nearly $5,000,000 worth of TV ads to support five Republican Senate candidates in battleground states, Breitbart News has learned. The investment is notable because the massive blitz will likely make a difference in many of the tight races, an impact Democrats likely dread. MAGA Inc., Trump’s PAC, will invest a total of $4,905,000 in the key senate swing states throughout Georgia, Arizona, Ohio, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. A source close to the PAC told Breitbart News the ads will air until the ad buy is exhausted. If additional funds are necessary, outstanding funds “will...

Former President Trump is opening up his wallet to save Herschel Walker, whose Senate campaign has been reeling from allegations he paid for a woman to abort his child. Trump endorsed the one-time NFL star early in Georgia’s GOP Senate primary and Walker’s showing next month will be a big test of the former president’s continued influence with voters. Make American Great Again Inc., a Trump-backed Super PAC, injected $750,000 into ad spending in the Peach State in support of Walker, Politico reported Friday. An ad for the group now airing leans heavily into culture war issues and attacks against...

The Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. is lighting up Ohio Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman in recent ads, weeks ahead of the midterm election. The election is coming down to its final stretch, and the Trump-backed PAC is making moves, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads in both Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Cleveland combined. One of the ads targets Ohio Senate hopeful Tim Ryan and features him overtly sucking up to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). “Senator Schumer’s here and I want to make sure he’s my future boss, so I gotta suck...

It’s going to be a red-letter week for Sen. Doug Mastriano’s gubernatorial campaign: the Republican underdog is finally launching a television advertising campaign. Mastriano’s campaign announced Monday that its first ads of the race will go up later this week in a fundraising pitch to supporters. The campaign did not respond to questions about the ads’ content but stated in the email that “our team is putting the final touches on them as we speak.” A PennLive check with advertising trackers Kantar/CMAG confirmed that the Mastriano campaign has reserved $234,000 from Oct. 4 through Oct. 10, concentrated in the Pittsburgh...

But some Republicans are worrying that Mastriano is squandering the opportunity in one of the country’s most consequential races. Would-be allies have remained on the sidelines, having concluded by now that a Mastriano win in November might require a minor miracle. Coincidentally, divine intervention is just what the candidate has in mind this week. On Monday night, Mastriano’s campaign posted on Facebook a photo of two hands under the words “40 days of fasting & prayer” with the dates Sept. 29 through Nov. 8 — Election Day. “Interceding for our elections, our state, and our nation,” it stated, along with...

Beautiful and hopefully the first step in turning things around for him.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In the same spot where he spoke to thousands of people at a raucous State Capitol rally demanding an end to pandemic restrictions in April 2020, Doug Mastriano appeared on Saturday before a crowd of just a few dozen — about half of whom were volunteers for his ragtag campaign for governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mastriano, an insurgent state senator who in the spring cruised to the Republican nomination, is learning this fall that while it is one thing to win a crowded G.O.P. primary on the back of online fame and Donald J. Trump’s endorsement, it...

Why is radical John Fetterman dodging debates?

Beto released his first TVs of the gubernatorial campaign

California Governor Gavin Newsom made headlines in recent months for running campaign-style ads in Florida inviting migration to the Golden State. Amid energy shortages and blackouts, Newsom continued the onslaught this week with a new slate of ads targeting states where people are still able to turn on their TVs because their states have electricity. "Your state's values are hateful and bigoted, but there's still time – leave your conservative hellhole and come to the great state of California today!" Frost is visible on Newsom's breath in his well-air-conditioned office during the ads, which have been running throughout sunbelt states...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has made it clear that he has nothing but disdain for the mainstream media. The state senator routinely bars news organizations from his events and ignores requests for comment from reporters. But a candidate running for statewide office has to get his message out somehow — so now he is posting and advertising on Gab, a far-right social media site where Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life shooter, uploaded violent anti-Semitic messages before committing the most deadly assault on Jews in American history. Associating with Gab — paying it for services, palling around with its...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Governor Ron Desantis has responded to Governor Gavin Newsom's political ads in Florida by running political ads of his own in California. While Newsom's ads were urging libs to move to California, Desantis is begging the libs in California to stay put. "Listen, folks, it's simple really — in Florida, we believe in clean sidewalks, and shrinking the homeless problem — NOT growing it!" said Governor Ron DeSantis in his California statewide ad. "So to all the woke libs out there let me be clear: do not come to Florida. Stay in California and indoctrinate your...