Ad Watch

Hovde’s campaign said the ads are the first piece of a $2 million buy that includes TV and digital.

The spot focuses on Steve Nasholm, a 35-year-old Clayton man who died in January when the semi he was driving collided with an SUV driven by 21-year-old Jorge Sanchez-Tzanahua, who was not in the country legally.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has a new ad addressing the nation’s southern border, including a vow to hire thousands more agents and to crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.

Americans for Prosperity Action’s new ads in the U.S. Senate race praise Republican Eric Hovde’s business sense and knock Dem Tammy Baldwin over rising costs.

The ad comes on the heels of Wied, a De Pere businessman who’s been endorsed by Donald Trump, launching a new spot featuring the former president that labels Roth a “RINO who is no friend of MAGA.”

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.”