CatholicVote launched two Spanish-language ads targeting Catholic Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) on Wednesday. The ads call the senators out for failing to address issues of importance to Hispanic voters, while focusing on unpopular far-Left priorities such as the failed Women’s Health Protection Act.
The ad campaign comes as polling shows Hispanic voters shifting more and more away from the political Left. Hispanics showed a marked rightward drift in 2020 elections, but many Democratic strategists believed at the time that it was a transitory phenomenon that would reverse itself in future elections.
Those same Democratic observers have become increasingly worried in recent months, however, as Hispanic voters not only continue to leave the Democratic Party, but are now doing so at an accelerating rate. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that, just ahead of the 2022 midterms, Hispanics would prefer a Republican candidate over a Democratic one by nine percentage points.
CatholicVote’s ads speak the language of many Hispanic voters in more ways than one.
“We need politicians who solve real problems: the increase in the cost of food, gasoline, the increase in crime and the lack of respect for parents in the schools,” states one of the ads in Spanish. Despite issues like these being on voters’ minds, the ad points out, Sen. Kelly focused instead on voting “in favor of a law that seeks to legalize abortion up to the moment of birth without listening to parents.”
“Are you with us or with the millionaires who want unlimited abortion?” the video asks, and encourages voters to call Kelly’s office to ask him themselves.
“Our campaign is designed to educate and mobilize Hispanic voters to hold key senators accountable for their misplaced priorities,” said CatholicVote’s Brian Burch:
As voters ask their elected officials to address skyrocketing gas prices, soaring crime and inflation, and the lingering consequences of excessive COVID mandates, senators in both Nevada and Arizona are instead pushing extreme abortion laws. The real priorities of Hispanic voters are being ignored.
CatholicVote President Brian Burch highlighted the fact that Sens. Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto “both hold themselves out publicly as Catholic,” making their votes in favor of the Women’s Health Protection Act “especially disturbing….”
Readers can find both of CatholicVote’s ads here:
The above comes from a March 15 story issued by CatholicVote.
Ha…how do ya like that border now? Never thought of it that way, but it seems reasonable that the people fleeing South America are doing so, at least in part, because of the utter departure from authentic Christian principles and ethics. They’re not dumb people….
The number 1 issue facing mankind today is the abortion of unborn babies in the womb by the tens of millions right across our entire planet. Jesus quite clearly states throughout scripture “What you did for the least of my children you did unto me.” The problem and horror of culture of death policies like abortion is that it will lead to the death of a culture. When you kill an unborn baby child you are quite literally killing its future. For all we know that child might have been the one to find a cure for cancer. The unborn are our future. Terminate Roe vs. Wade, not the unborn. Let’s stop killing our future.
Francisco Ruffolo
March 17, 2022 10:07PM