Campaign ads

The pro-Democratic super-PAC American Bridge 21st Century unveiled a Web video on Monday that pokes fun at the Republican National Committee's (RNC) newly released report on electoral failures and steps needed to modernize the party.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) first ad of his reelection campaign features his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, decrying attacks on herself and her husband.

A new video from American Crossroads, the nonprofit organization founded by Karl Rove, accuses the a rival group born from President Obama's reelection campaign of "selling access to the president" in a new video fashioned like a late-night infomercial.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is getting some air support for his immigration push: Republicans for Immigration Reform, a new super-PAC, is launching an ad in his home state praising his efforts for bipartisan reform.

Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D) released her first ad in the race to fill the House seat vacated by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), touting her ability to create jobs in the area.

"I've spent 20 years using our ports to create jobs, selling American products made by American workers," she says in the ad. "I approve this message because I'm not going to talk about the jobs that we lost. I know what it takes to create new jobs."

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords's (D-Ariz.) new pro-gun control group is running ads to pressure two key GOP senators to support universal background checks for all firearm purchasers.

The group, Americans for Responsible Solutions, is targeting specific lawmakers for the first time with the ads directed at Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The two sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will begin marking up gun legislation this week.

The conservative super-PAC American Crossroads mocked an Obama-affiliated nonprofit group, which watchdog groups allege is offering donors access to the president, in a satirical Web ad released Monday.

The ad is produced like a late-night infomercial, with an over-the-top narrator promising access to President Obama and ambassadorships for “one easy payment of $500,000.”

"If he really wants cooperation, why would you ... intentionally antagonize?" said Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.)

Club for Growth released its first ad of the 2014 election cycle, calling Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) President Obama's "best ally" in Arkansas.

"He's the only Arkansan in Congress today who voted for ObamaCare, the only one who voted for the Obama stimulus. He joined Obama to bail out the Wall Street banks. Who is he? Mark Pryor," the ad's narrator says. "He's supposed to be our senator, but Mark Pryor is really Barack Obama's best ally in Arkansas. When you vote for Pryor, you vote for Obama. It's that simple."