Kamala Harris, Vice President will join an embattled House candidate for an event in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, a historically Democratic seat that looks increasingly vulnerable to a Republican challenge.
Jahana Hayes (embarrassed Democratic Representative) announced via Twitter that Harris will be joining her for an event in the district on Wednesday. Hayes stated that the visit was to “highlight federal actions being taken to defend access and reproductive care.”
The statement continued to state that, “during times when the rights of women have been threatened, having full support from the Biden–Harris administration was critical in paving the way forward for every woman to have the freedom to make her healthcare decisions.”
Ben Proto is the chairman of The Connecticut GOP, thinks the timing of the vice president’s visit is a sign that Hayes may be vulnerable.
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“I think she’s coming to the district because Johanna Hayes’s campaign is faltering, and they know she’s moving in the wrong direction,” Proto told Fox News Digital.
Although Biden won the district by 11 points in 2020, Proto says the administration’s track Record of the economy gives him doubts that Harris’ visit will have a positive effect with voters. Proto commented, “I find it fascinating that the person they send for Johanna Hayes support is the only one in the country with lower favorability ratings than Joe Biden.”
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The announcement of Harris’ visit comes just one day after a report on the Congressional Leadership Fund’s (CLF) October media buys for midterm races was released, revealing that the Republican super PAC had spent $600,000 on ads in favor of Hayes’s opponent, Republican former State Senator George Logan. Axios first reported on the CLF’s media spending in the district.
Rep. Jahana Hayes and Vice President Kamala Hariri, as well as George Logan.
(Getty Images/George Logan)
Proto asserts that Democrats are using Roe V. Wade and Abortion as “the bright shiny object to distract voters” from the real issues. Proto stated that voters in the predominantly middle-class and working-class district are more concerned about the cost to live, gasoline costs, and heating their homes.
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Following CLF’s ad buy, Politico updated its 2022 election forecast for Hayes’s district, changing it from “lean Democrat” to “toss-up.” The outlet acknowledged advantages Hayes has in the categories of incumbency and fundraising, but asserted that candidate quality and long-term trends equally favored the two candidates — despite the fact that the district has not Voted a RepublicanSince 2002.
Harris’ visit to Connecticut is not the first time Democrats have attempted to shift the focus of the closely-watched race to abortion rights in order to move the needle in Hayes’ favor. Logan’s campaign claims that last week, House Majority PAC (an outside spending group connected to Nancy Pelosi) attacked Logan and claimed that he had “refused support Roe v. Wade” as well as promising to help Republican leadership to implement a “nationwide ban against abortion.”
George Logan is a candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District. He says he is not a typical Republican in campaign ads.
(George Logan for Congress).
Logan’s legal counsel sent a cease and desist letter to the television stations airing the ad September 29, arguing the claim that the candidate refused to support the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade“patently false, misleading, as George Logan repeatedly stated support for Roe V. Wade and its policy implications throughout the course of his career.”
Logan has previously called out Connecticut Democratic Party to a Tweet: “racially motivated.”In May, the group attacked him. The style of the tweet allegedly referenced the children’s series “Curious George,” which follows the adventures of an anthropomorphic monkey. Hayes retweeted the tweet and it was quickly deleted. Hayes and Connecticut Democratic Party both apologized.
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Logan later launched a campaign ad of his own claiming that Democrats were “coming after’ him now because he doesn’t “fit in this box” of a “typical Republican.”
For a majority House, Republicans must win five more seats at the November midterm elections.
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