Democrats in tight Senate races run ads touting their work with Trump

Ads have been released that show four Democratic Senate candidates in battleground states either working with former President Donald Trump or agreeing with his messaging as the November election is less than a month away.

Campaign ads for Rep. Elissa Slotkin in Michigan, Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, and Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin focus on the Democratic candidates' alliance with Trump or his policies, implying that aligning with the former president may benefit their campaigns more than siding with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

While Trump is behind Harris by 1.4 points nationally according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, he leads the vice president in every battleground state.

Slotkin, who is running for Senate, released an ad in which she criticized electric vehicle mandates and promoted manufacturing EVs in the U.S.

"I live on a dirt road, nowhere near a charging station, so I don't own an electric car," Slotkin said. "No one should tell us what to buy, and no one is gonna mandate anything. But here's the thing: If there's gonna be a new generation of vehicles, I want that new generation built right here in Michigan, not China."

However, Slotkin voted against the GOP-led bill last month that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency's new emissions standards requiring up to two-thirds of new cars sold to be EVs by 2032.

In Ohio, an ad produced by a PAC for Brown noted that "he wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border."

Meanwhile, a clip of a Casey ad described how the senator "sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating."

In Baldwin's ad, it says, "Tammy Baldwin got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill. Then she got President Biden to make it permanent."

The Trump campaign criticized the Democrats' ads, distancing them from the GOP presidential nominee.

"It's not exactly the behavior you'd expect from candidates who believe their nominee is winning," the campaign said in a statement. "They're all complete and total frauds. Each of them supported both impeachment hoaxes against President Trump and have voted to enable the toxic Harris-Biden agenda every step of the way."

Pollster Scott Rasmussen told Just the News on Friday that the ads of the Democratic candidates do not imply that they all believe Trump will win.

"Senator Brown in Ohio is quite aware that Trump will win his state and he's hoping to defy political gravity. That requires a lot of distancing from Harris and the national party," Rasmussen said.

"For the others, it does NOT reflect a belief that Donald Trump will win," he added. "However, it is an acknowledgement that many in their state support the former president and some of the specific policies. Additionally, the GOP candidates in those states are running behind Trump's totals. For a Democratic candidate, it's essential to maintain that gap."