A conservative super PAC launched a new ad campaign Thursday targeting Democrat lawmakers in western Senate races over their anti-Catholic records.
The group, Frontiers of Freedom Action (FFA), unveiled the two-minute ads on local stations in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico highlighting the anti-Catholic records of Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Sen. Jackie Rosen, D-Nev., and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.
“Gallego is particularly vulnerable because of his far-left record. He is unsuitable for Arizona — but so too are Martin Heinrich in New Mexico and Jackie Rosen in Nevada,” said the PAC president, George Landrith. “When Hispanic voters — especially Hispanics who attend Catholic Mass — come to learn about their senator’s record of anti-Catholic bigotry, they are going to be stunned.”
The ads have been produced in both English and Spanish. Each ad pointed out the Democrats’ support for Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who sought to coerce the Little Sisters of the Poor into providing contraception. As secretary, Becerra also threatened the federal funding of hospitals which refused to offer transgender surgeries. Rosen and Heinrich both voted to confirm Becerra, whose nomination passed three years ago by a single vote.
The ads went on to highlight lawmakers’ absence when the news broke of the FBI targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists.
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“Republicans too often forget that even though many Hispanic voters are moving towards Trump, they are likely to vote for incumbent members of Congress just because
