GOP group targets rural Democrats over 'death tax'

The political nonprofit organization aligned with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is airing new television advertisements attacking Reps. Cindy Axne of Iowa and Ron Kind of Wisconsin.

The $300,000 ad buy from American Action Network is part of a $1 million effort to sink a Democratic proposal to fund new infrastructure with a hike to what Republicans refer to as the death tax, also known as the inheritance tax. The spots hitting Axne and Kind are part of American Action Network’s focus on rural communities with family-owned farms as part of the overall GOP strategy to recapture the House in 2022.