The super PAC affiliated with Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, is upping its investment in the Arizona Senate race to $7.5 million with a brand-new advertising buy.
Sentinel Action Fund is spending $1.5 million to air a television spot critical of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in a bid to boost Republican challenger Blake Masters, who is trailing in the race. The super PAC has previously aired $5 million worth of ads against Kelly in Arizona. In this new spot, Sentinel Action Fund hammers the senator on immigration and his support for President Joe Biden’s agenda broadly.
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“Did you watch the debate?” the voiceover says as the ad opens, referring to last week’s Kelly-Masters faceoff. The spot then plays a clip of Kelly saying he has been a “strong” proponent of border security. “That’s a lie,” the voiceover says immediately afterward, adding, after a clip of Kelly saying he occasionally opposes Biden’s policies: “Another lie. Kelly votes with Joe Biden 94% of the time.”
Sentinel Action Fund has been among the more active conservative groups on Masters’s behalf in the Arizona Senate race, although others are beginning to get more involved. The hesitancy is a function of doubts about the Republican’s viability against Kelly. He has generally trailed the Democratic incumbent in the polls and underperformed in surveys compared to the GOP gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, despite a favorable political environment for the GOP.
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Kelly leads Masters in the RealClearPolitics average 49% to 44.9%, a margin of 4.1 percentage points. Lake, a former television news anchor, leads Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor, 48% to 46.9%.
