In the waning days of the midterm election season, Democratic candidates and organizations are hammering home an emphasis on subjects seen as more favorable to Republicans, such as inflation and crime, on the airways.
Just over a week remains for campaigns and outside expenditure organizations to make their final pitches to voters before Election Day ushers in what is widely anticipated to be a wave of Republican victories.
While Democrats have spent months attempting to broaden the discourse to include abortion, some of their most recent ad war shots have highlighted a return to the kitchen table topics that voters have indicated they care about more, according to pollsters.
Democrats’ stance on crime may not have time to influence voters.
Tina Kotek, a Democrat running for governor of Oregon, has spent part of her final campaign commercials separating herself from Kate Brown, a fellow Democrat, and debunking Christine Drazan, a Republican, who has accused her of being tolerant of homelessness.
The least favored governor in the nation is Brown.
“Ads by Christine Drazan? In mid-October, a narrator declares in the introduction of an advertisement in favour of Kotek, “They’re just not true. “Nearly three years ago, Tina Kotek requested a declaration of emergency for homeless people. None of Kate Brown. Christine Drazan, not her.
Up until this point, Kotek had largely centered her campaign on abortion.
In a recent abortion-related ad, a Planned Parenthood representative claimed, “Oregon has the strongest protections for reproductive rights in the country because we’ve had amazing champions like Tina Kotek.”
In recent polls, Drazan has had a slim advantage.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York launched an advertisement against Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), her Republican opponent in the run for governor, for his position on abortion.
But one of her most recent advertisements emphasizes crime instead. As a result of Zeldin’s months-long attacks on Hochul for her views on criminal justice, particularly her prior support for cashless bail programs, surveys in the solidly blue state have started to close to uncomfortably close levels.
“A nighttime safe route home. a fear-free subway ride. a more secure New York for all kids. In the more current advertisement, a voiceover informs viewers that Kathy Hochul, as governor, is fighting for that.
Some Democratic advertisements in House races have changed their tone.
