A pro-Obamacare group released a new wave of ads Monday targeting GOP senators to get them to oppose Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The group, Protect Our Care, introduced TV and digital ads targeting Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine.
The ads charge that confirmation of Kavanaugh could lead to the end of Obamacare’s pre-existing condition protections.
“With Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the future of Americans’ health care for generations is once again coming down to the vote of just a handful of Senators,” Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care, said in a statement.
Critics have said that if Kavanaugh is confirmed to the court, he could side with Texas and 19 other states in a lawsuit charging that the entirety of Obamacare should be struck down because the financial penalty for its individual mandate will be zeroed out in 2019.
The digital and TV ads urge constituents to call the targeted senators to oppose Kavanaugh. The group is also airing radio ads in Alaska.
Collins and Murkowski both sided with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to defeat an Obamacare repeal bill last year. Heller is one of the most vulnerable senators up for re-election this fall.
Republicans only have a 51-49 majority in the Senate, and GOP leadership needs every Republican senator to support Kavanaugh.
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