A Republican group on Monday began running advertising on Spanish-language television in Atlanta, in a bid to scoop up every available vote before next week’s competitive special congressional election.
With eight days to go in the toss-up contest for Georgia’s vacant 6th District, Congressional Leadership Fund, which is aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is running a version of its spot that ties Democrat Jon Ossoff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Univision and Telemundo. He is running against Republican Karen Handel.
Suburban Atlanta’s Hispanic population is small. But CLF has expanded its multimillion-dollar effort to keep the seat in Republican hands to the Spanish language networks, searching for every possible vote in a race that Republicans concede is in doubt despite the conservative leanings of the district.
“Jon Ossoff is all in for Nancy Pelosi’s agenda of bigger government, higher spending and more taxes that is crushing Americans’ pocketbooks,” CLF executive director Corry Bliss said in a statement. “Hispanic families will hear just how liberal, out-of-touch and wholly unfit Jon Ossoff is to represent Georgia’s sixth district.”
The contest to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price concludes on June 20. Ossoff led Handel by 4.8 percentage points in the latest polling averages.
Here is the English translation of the ad CLF launched on Monday:
Nancy Pelosi and liberals put us twenty trillion in debt.
Jon Ossoff would make things worse, voting for higher taxes, more spending and job-crushing regulations.
Ossoff and Pelosi. Bigger government we can’t afford.
As Georgia’s only woman in Congress, Karen Handel will fight hard for working families. Supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment. Fighting waste.
Putting Georgia taxpayers and Georgia jobs first.
