The National Republican Senatorial Committee will target people traveling through swing states this holiday week with gas station ads about inflation.
The ad campaign takes aim at President Joe Biden and Democrats for high gas and grocery prices as travelers fill up their tanks on Thanksgiving road trips.
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“Hey, You!” the ad begins, “Do you like high gas prices? If so, introducing: Joe Biden and Democrats.”
The ad calls Biden and Democrats “incompetent leaders” who “make you choose between filling up your car and feeding your children.”
The NRSC’s ad campaign is a five-figure, multiday buy that includes 10 battleground states where Republicans hope to either flip or maintain a Senate seat in next year’s midterm elections: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Republicans have made rising inflation and supply chain issues some of their key talking points against the Biden administration as they prepare for the 2022 elections and have argued that a sweeping social spending bill recently passed by the House would contribute to rising costs.
Democrats have argued that investments made by the bill will help people struggling with the rising cost of living.
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Biden on Tuesday ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the nation’s strategic reserve in an effort to decrease energy costs, but the barrels won’t move into the market until mid to late December. Gas prices currently average about $3.40 a gallon, more than 50% higher than a year ago, according to the American Automobile Association, although travel was still reduced last year during the height of the pandemic.
