'Stop caving to the woke mobs': GOP ramps up attacks on vulnerable Dems amid anti-Israel campus unrest
FIRST ON FOX: The anti-Israel protests that have erupted on college campuses across the country in recent weeks over Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza are fueling new political attacks by Republicans on vulnerable Democrats running in this year's Senate elections.
"Death to America. Threatening Jews. Attacking Police. Antisemitic mobs are taking over our universities. Students radicalized by the far left acting like terrorists," the narrator says in a new series of ads by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the campaign arm of the Senate GOP.
The spots target four Democrats — senators Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Jon Tester of Montana — as well as Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the likely Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan. All five are being heavily targeted by the NRSC as the GOP aims to regain the Senate majority in November's elections.
The narrator argues that President Biden and Democratic lawmakers "want you to pay off their student loans using your tax dollars to fund this mayhem."
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The ads end with the narrator urging viewers to tell Democrats to "stop caving to the woke mobs and put America first."
The NRSC is spending a minuscule five figures to run the spots, but a bigger ad blitz with a similar theme is expected in the near future.
"This is the most toxic issue for Democrats since they tried to defund the police," NRSC communications director Mike Berg claimed.
"You can bet it will be in television ads if Democrats on college campuses continue these antisemitic riots."
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The protests, some of which have turned violent