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The Future of the ACA at Stake

New TV Ad in IL-13 “Invokes Ginsburg” to Highlight Health Care

Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan’s campaign is out with a new TV ad in IL-13 highlighting the importance of protecting the Affordable Care Act and its protections for pre-existing conditions that is currently in front of the Supreme Court.

From the ad: “A Supreme Court controlled by Donald Trump could overturn the Affordable Care Act by the end of the year. Rodney Davis won’t help us. He votes with Trump and the drug and insurance industries that gave him over $770,000. Davis voted 11 times to gut protections for pre-existing conditions.”

The ad is running as part of a six-figure buy in the Champaign/Springfield/Decatur and Peoria media markets on broadcast, cable, and digital.

Statement from DCCC Spokesperson Courtney Rice:

“Now, more than ever, health care is on the ballot. Voters will remember that Republicans like Rodney Davis voted 11 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut protections for pre-existing conditions and, come November, vote them out of office.”

Roll Call: Democratic House challenger invokes Ginsburg in new campaign ad

By Kate Ackley

  • Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, who is challenging Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, is launching an ad Friday that invokes the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ties the Supreme Court fight to her party’s broader push on health care.
  • …Dirksen Londrigan’s ad, part of a six-figure buy, is among the first for a House candidate to draw on the fight over the justice’s replacement, linking it with Democrats’ dominant message of expanding health care coverage.
  • The new ad says Davis voted multiple times to “gut” protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. It’s a message that Democrats have used in other competitive races, including against GOP Reps. John Katko of New York and Ann Wagner of Missouri.
  • “With the fate of the Affordable Care Act now more uncertain than ever, we can’t trust Rodney Davis to protect our health care,” Dirksen Londrigan campaign spokeswoman Eliza Glezer said. “We need representatives like Betsy Dirksen Londrigan who will fight to ensure everyone has access to quality, affordable health care.”
  • Dirksen Londrigan had $2.2 million in the bank as of June 30, while Davis disclosed $1.9 million in his campaign account. Outside groups have spent close to $1 million against Davis, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee the biggest spender.
  • Trump carried the 13th District by 5 points in 2016, but recent internal polling by Dirksen Londrigan’s campaign had former Vice President Joe Biden up by near double digits and the House race essentially tied.
  • Democratic groups, including the DCCC and its Senate counterpart, reiterated the party’s messaging on health care in a memo Thursday. “We’re going to keep reminding voters of Republicans’ toxic efforts to gut their health care over the final weeks of this election,” the memo from the chiefs of those groups said.

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