Response to Chicago Tribune editorial endorsement of Ives, Casten puts heavy dose of President Trump against Ives
Last Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune endorsed Republican Jeanne Ives‘ candidacy in the 6th congressional district over incumbent Democrat Sean Casten.
Casten’s campaign responded with its sharpest attack yet on Ives’ support of President Trump with various outtakes of the President’s quotes about COVID-19. This time, ex-IL Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady is not in the commercial.
The newest commercial is part of Casten’s $2.4 million broadcast TV ad buy from last month through the election. The ad is entitled “Trust the Science”.
Candidates are no longer posting their TV commercials on YouTube, so the video for the new Casten ad can be viewed here.
COMMENTARY: Why does Casten feel he has to go negative? This latest ad isn’t only about the Chicago Tribune editorial endorsement. If that were it, Casten would have put a graphic touting his editorial board endorsements from Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Heraid and Shaw Media Local News Network. Ives did not compete for those three endorsements Casten won by default, but the average voter will not know that.
Usually, when a candidate goes negative, even a frontrunning candidate, it means their main rival according to internal polling (“internals”) is within 20 percentage points, and/or the candidate on attack is not over 60% supermajority.
Contrast Casten’s media advertising with Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D, IL-14) in her head-to-head with Republican Jim Oberweis.
To date, Underwood has done two ad buys, one cable TV, the 2nd broadcast TV. None of Underwood’s TV advertising is negative. Her ads are all positive, the latest one touting her clean-sweep of newspaper editorial endorsements Oberweis actively competed to win.
Complement Underwood’s spending by Oberweis now being dark on TV, no mailing for over a week, and no campaign press release in over two weeks, and one gets the message Underwood is well above 60% support based on internals, and she sees no reason to go negative at this point in early October.
The 3rd quarter FEC filings due next week will confirm much concerning both races in the 6th and 14th.
As far as the Casten ad itself, the phrase “Trust the Science”, at least to me, is Democratic governors, particularly J.B. Pritzker’s way to tell critics to “STFU”, or “shut the [BLEEP] up!” even in the face of honest, constructive questioning or suggestions.
If other voters feel the same way, this ad will not go over well with mainstream voters, provided Ives gets on broadcast TV quickly touting her own merits.
** If other voters feel the same way, this ad will not go over well with mainstream voters **
LOL
But we agree on something – Casten is probably not up by 20 points.
Casten is a scientist. Where are his cures? ☹️
Gives West Point graduate.
Love that!
Ives West Point graduate.
Love that!
Everyone goes negative. And with Jeanne there’s a lot of material
Casten has the second most punchable face in congress. A real turd
Casten?
http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/2011/03/irish_guys.html
Well he’s a POS and a pervert/baby killer, so….
LOL, are you aware that Sean Casten has nothing to do with the governor position? He says ‘Trust the Science’ because he’s not a career politician, he’s a scientist—he has 2 Master’s Degrees in biochemistry and engineering. This is…literally his wheelhouse and what he spent his entire adult life working on.
Compare that to Ives, who has spent 3 terms twiddling her thumbs in Springfield and who literally ran against Bruce Rauner in 2018 on the grounds that Rauner fought too much with Madigan and that she would instead build alliances with Madigan’s team to pass things they both agreed on. I’m not joking. Her argument against Rauner was actually that he wasn’t good enough at reaching across the aisle to work with the Madigan Dems in Springfield instead of against them, and that she would do a better job of it.
Casten? Lifelong scientist and business CEO who has specifically worked in the field of microbiology and biochemistry. Ives? Springfield layabout whose 2020 campaign site marks being a parent volunteer for her kids’ cross country team for twelve years as one of her proudest accomplishments. Yeah, I’d trust Casten more too.
Casten is a degenerate. It shows on his face. He is a traitorous piece of trash.
He will be as relevant a year from now as exCongressman Walsh is now.
Backpfeifengesicht:
A German word, meaning something along the lines of “a face that is begging to be punched.” The word Backpfeife means either “punch or slap” and Gesicht means “face.”
✌️😎
Looking forward to the upcoming castration of the GOP.
They all part of the repugnant party that has no spine.
I despise Democrats, but they didn’t contribute to the homicide of 206,000+ Americans.
Any vote for the GOP is a slap to the families who lost people from COVID.
Re Noble at 3:38 PM. Many of those who have been in the PRIVATE sector have encountered people with one or two masters degrees who were surpassed in effectiveness, drive and results by those who MERELY had a bachelor degree in engineering, buisiness or other.
This guy Casten has Zero respect for the lives of unborn infants. He is quoted as saying that an abortion is no different than removing a diseased gall bladder. What a dope.
Belcher, please give your body to science following your expiration.
The tragic disease which turned your brain into liquified mush needs to be studied and cured.
FLamont, no, candidates go negative when they need to go negative, and Casten needs to go negative.
He’s smarting from Ives getting Chicago Tribune endorsement, and unless he’s leading in the polls by over 20 percentage points, Ives is too close.
Early reports have Ives raising $1 million in Q3, and Casten $1.5 million. Will do article once I can see cash on hand.
And look at Underwood. She’s yet to go negative on Oberweis and neither has outside money, so outside of a shaky LWV candidates forum last month, Underwood appears to be coasting. I’m sure if the race tightens, attack ads are in the can ready to launch if internals say they’re needed.
How can Casten complain, when he has endorsements from the Daily Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Northwest Herald, Shaw Media and ???? 😐
Ives’ Chicago Tribune endorsement doesn’t automatically make her a winner. 😐
Eddie, didn’t say the Tribune makes Ives a winner, just makes her competitive.
If Ives’ $1 million Q3 fundraising total is true coupled with enough cash-on-hand to buy broadcast TV air time for TV commercials this month, it makes her more competitive.
And BTW, Senator Dick Durbin, in spite of Willie Wilson on the ballot as an independent, has not gone negative either, just running positive ads in what is likely his last campaign.
Which means Durbin must be polling above 60% in Chicagoland media market.
John, I’d never suggest that. 😁
Durbin and Wilson won’t receive my Black vote. 😁
Durbin in private wears his Masonic turban.
Even if I wasn’t supporting Casten (and I am), Ives’s positions are so horrible that I’d actively seek to vote against her.