Ad Watch

State Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, has released a new ad in the closing days of the 3rd CD Dem primary touting her experience as a state lawmaker.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s campaign has released a new ad featuring an Iraq war veteran who calls the Madison Dem “a hell of a fighter.”

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commitee today announced its first independent expenditure targeting GOP candidate Eric Hovde: a TV ad calling him an “arrogant, phony fraud.” The DSCC said it’s part of a previously announced $79 million buy across multiple states,

U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, feeds goats and knocks “loudmouth, preening politicians” in the first TV ad of his reelection campaign. 

In the ad, several speakers say they’re proud children of single mothers and one is incredulous that Hovde thinks if you have a single mom, “you’re going to be poor or a drug addict.”

The narrator in 8th CD GOP candidate Roger Roth’s new TV ad says the former state senator will “fight tooth and nail to save America.” Roth’s campaign said the spot, his second in the race, is running on broadcast TV

Protect Wisconsin’s Constitution-Vote No is out with a new TV ad that warns the proposed amendments are a “power grab to give the MAGA politicians in the legislature the sole power to distribute emergency funding.”

GOP 8th CD candidate Tony Wied’s new TV ad features Donald Trump offering his “complete and total” endorsement of the De Pere businessman while calling on rival Roger Roth to drop out of the race.

The Speak Free or Die PAC, which is backing former state Sen. Roger Roth in the 8th CD race, is launching a new ad campaign knocking Tony Wied as “slick” and a “total loser.”

A group backing Rebecca Cooke’s claims in a new ad her 3rd CD Dem primary campaign rival Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, is “working for Republicans, not you.”