The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is taking aim at vulnerable Republican senators and tying them to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump during the Republican National Convention this week.
{mosads}In a memo first shared with The Hill, the DSCC will target a specific policy area each day and send out a release to show where the GOP senators and Trump overlap on certain policy proposals. The issue areas include defunding Planned Parenthood and blocking President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Monday’s release highlights how the GOP senators are linked to the real estate mogul, despite most of them deciding to skip the party’s convention in Cleveland.
The memo also ticks through a list of 13 GOP senators and Senate candidates and quotes what they’ve said about supporting Trump.
The release knocks Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) for saying she will support but not endorse Trump, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) for backing the businessman and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) for saying he “look[s] forward to working with Mr. Trump at the top of the ticket.”
The race for the Senate majority is a heated one this cycle.
Democrats need to net five Senate seats in 2016 — or four and also retain the White House — to regain a majority in the upper chamber. Democrats are only defending 10 seats, while the GOP is defending 24 seats, including several in swing states that were won by Obama in both 2008 and 2012.