The conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Action will spend $3.5 million to boost Republicans challenging vulnerable Democrats in the U.S. Senate, with Dave McCormick to benefit from the group’s spending in Pennsylvania.
According to The Daily Wire, who broke the news of the AFP Action advertising spend on Monday, the group will spend $3.5 million to target Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
AFP Action National Director Nathan Nascimento told the outlet the Democratic senators “are responsible for record high inflation that is harming everyday Americans,” and accused them of being “out of touch and disconnected from how people are suffering from their failures.”
The group’s ad for Pennsylvania features three Pennsylvanians who remark that costs of food and housing are “getting worse” under Casey’s watch.
“I’m very worried about where the country is headed,” said a woman identified as Jackie D. “Everything costs more… getting worse and worse for the average day family.”
A man identified as Jeffrey E. added, “Bob Casey has forgotten about all of us. He lives in a bubble.”
The ads come after the Koch-backed group previously endorsed former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the primary campaign for the Republican presidential nomination last year, arguing she presented the best “opportunity to turn the page on the current political era, to win the Republican primary and defeat Joe Biden next November.”
After he became the presumptive nominee, Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social that AFP and its founder, Charles Koch, were “played for suckers” by the Haley campaign, but the relationship appeared to thaw after the former president survived an assassination attempt on July 13.
“We condemn yesterday’s violence in the strongest terms and pray for the family and loved ones of the spectator who sadly lost his life. We’re thankful that former President Trump is safe and wish him a speedy and full recovery,” said AFP president Emily Sidel in a July 14 statement. “There is much more that unites us than divides us, and we can disagree without being driven to hate.”
The ad comes after Casey delivered a speech last week before the Democratic National Convention blaming “greedflation” for higher prices, claiming corporations are intentionally hiking prices to increase their bottom line.
Casey was immediately fact checked by CNN over his claims, and McCormick later argued it was Casey’s votes for Democratic policies championed by the Biden-Harris administration that caused the inflation which resulted in higher prices.
Watch AFP’s ad about Casey in Pennsylvania:
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
