The vulnerable democrats In Congress, he is trying to embrace, if only to a degree, the GOP presidential nominee in an attempt to soften his bipartisanship and woo undecided voters in the final days of the 2024 election.

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“If their Republican counterparts were smart, they would be doing the same thing to reach out to Harris supporters and try to explain their portrayal of their positions on reproductive rights,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon.

Democrats in battle for Senate races, including Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jon Tester (D-MT), Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), as well as Rep. Elissa Slotkin ( D- MI) for Michigan’s open seat, implemented the tactic.

“Casey rejected Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop it from cheating,” a recent. Casey advertises he boasted.

One from Baldwin she says “He got President Trump to sign the Made in America bill.”

A advertisement from Brown states that he “wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to combat drugs at the border.”

Also the political arm of the Tin, Air, Rail and Transport Workers union released an ad this week, going one step further to link Brown to Trump colleague Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).

“Sen. Brown is putting partisan politics aside and fighting for our employees and our safety so that Ohio is never railroaded again,” the ad said, while showing side-by-side images of Brown and Vance.

A Slotkin announced stated that he “wrote a law signed by President Trump that forces drug companies to show their real prices.”

In the most competitive Senate race that could result in majority control, Tester’s ads in Montana sought to appeal to Trump voters, but without his name and images. Tester presented “lifelong republicans” and boasted about how he “worked with Republicans, fighting to close the border, target fentanyl traffickers and add hundreds of new Border Patrol agents.”

The tendency to cozy up to Trump or some of his policies on the airwaves extends to independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn, who is mounting a remarkably competitive challenge to Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) in a state dominated by Trump. There is no Democratic candidate, but he has been labeled by Republicans and Fischer as a Democrat in sheep’s clothing.

“I’m where President Trump is on corruption, China, the border. If Trump needs help building the wall, well, I’m pretty handy,” Osborn says in a recent ad as the former steamfitter and former labor leader wields a blowtorch. “Deb and career politicians tried to stop Trump like they’re trying to stop me.”

Another announcement features Trump voters for Osborn, one of whom says, “Fisher stabbed Donald Trump in the back” for saying in 2016 that he should quit — a position she later reversed. Another says Fischer “has more in common with Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.”

“Osborne is with Trump in China on the border and draining the swamp,” says one Osborne supporter.

The campaign arm of Senate Republicans argued that Senate Democrats’ campaign rhetoric on Trump did not match their record, noting that they voted twice to convict him on impeachment and accusing them of “pushing his agenda at every step and tried to keep. he permanently resigned.”

“Now that I can see the writing on the wall, they are trying to rewrite history,” National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Philip Letsou said in a statement. “These Democrats have no respect for their own constituents and that’s why they’re so comfortable blatantly lying.”

Vice President Kamala Harris has also embraced some aspects of Trump’s policies. Most notable was his no-tax-on-tips proposal, a position Harris adopted after Trump first floated it in the service-industry-focused city of Las Vegas in the battleground state of Nevada. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), also running for re-election, signed similar GOP legislation from Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Steve Daines (R-MT).

Trump later posted on Truth Social that Harris “has no ideas, he can only steal from me.” Trump’s campaign branded her “Copy Cat Kamala.”

Trump and Vance accused Harris of taking several pages from their playbook by proposing a similar child tax credit and for her stance on steel policy, opposing the sale of US Steel, a domestic steelmaker, to Nippon Steel from Japan.

On the other side of the Capitol, in the House, centrist Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) also embraced Trump in ads.

One TV spot before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Golden said he “worked with the Trump administration to build a treatment center in Maine for my fellow veterans” and that he was “working with Republicans to secure the border and supported law enforcement against defunding the police. .”

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The campaign arm of House Republicans accused the “MAGA Democrats” of running ads “better suited for an SNL skit than a serious congressional campaign.”

“In reality, they’re all voting for San Francisco liberal Kamala Harris after years of covering Biden’s severe mental decline,” Will Reinert, press secretary for the Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement.

Cami Mondeaux contributed to this report.