Campaign ads

The Republican backed Rep. Mazie Hirono in a lighthearted ad that features him joking about Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is touting the bailouts given to the U.S. auto industry in a new campaign ad.

Brown, who is in a tough race for reelection against Ohio state Treasurer Josh Mandel, appears in the 30 second commercial next to a Chevrolet Cruze.

"I'm Sherrod Brown and this is a Chevy Cruize," he says in the clip. "We're both from Ohio." 

The League of Conservation Voters is targeting five House Republicans who question or deny human links to climate change with a $1.5 million ad campaign, The Washington Post reported Monday.

The ad features clips of former Democratic Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton to support Brown's claim.

Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) is out with a new ad that blasts Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) for "playing politics with cancer."

An outside group backing President Obama’s reelection bid is teaming up with a service-workers union to attack Mitt Romney on immigration. 

The Spanish-language ad from Priorities USA and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) hits the presumptive GOP nominee for supporting Arizona’s controversial immigration law and criticizes him for refusing to release more of his tax returns.

"Our vote is based on trust, but Mitt Romney is not telling us everything. He made millions while firing workers and outsourcing jobs overseas. He keeps accounts in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes here in the U.S.," the ad's narrator says in Spanish. "Now Romney refuses to share all of his tax returns. What is he hiding? Romney — he wants us to show him our papers but he doesn't show us his. How can we trust Mitt Romney?"

Rep. Allen West's (R-Fla.) reelection campaign released a new ad touting his background as a high school teacher.

In the ad, "Opportunity," released Wednesday, West says that growing up in Atlanta, he had two choices: freedom or economic dependence.

Mitt Romney's campaign targeted Hispanic voters by showcasing the presumptive GOP nominee's immigrant roots in a Spanish-language television ad released Wednesday.

President Obama's campaign released a television ad Tuesday hammering rival Mitt Romney on his personal finances. 

The deep-pocketed, fiscally conservative Club for Growth is up with its first ads in Wisconsin's GOP Senate primary, and they attack both former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) and businessman Eric Hovde (R).

The Club has long made electing former Rep. Mark Neumann (R-Wis.) a priority, and had spent months attacking Thompson in press releases. But Hovde's late entry into the race — and his millions of dollars in ad spending so far — have rocketed him past Neumann into second place in recent polls, and complicated things for the group.

The ad confirms that the group isn't just looking to destroy Thompson — it wants to take out Hovde, too.