AOC is a marketing campaign concern for Mondaire Jones in NY swing district as fiery adverts hyperlink Democrats

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t operating in New York’s suburbs — however she’s change into a marketing campaign concern there in one of many Empire State’s most hotly contested congressional swing districts.

The Home Republican Management PAC is operating thousands and thousands of {dollars} in TV adverts linking Democrat Mondaire Jones to liberal firebrand Ocasio-Cortez to support first-term GOP Rep. Mike Lawler within the tight race for the decrease Hudson Valley’s seventeenth District.

The seventeenth District — protecting Rockland, Putnam and elements of northern Westchester and Dutchess counties — has a large Jewish inhabitants, whose voters might account for 20% to 25% of the vote. Most of them are staunch backers of Israel, whereas Ocasio-Cortez has been a persistent critic.

Lawler and the GOP camp are claiming that Jones and Ocasio-Cortez are too far left for the district.

“He’s the satisfaction of New York proper now, Mondaire Jones,” Ocasio-Cortez is seen saying in a video clip utilized in a sequence of 30-second adverts, that are bankrolled by the Congressional Management Fund PAC.

The narrator chimes in, “AOC is happy with Mondaire as a result of they share the identical radical agenda.” 

The clip then exhibits an interview of Jones saying, “we have to finish mass incarceration … and defund the police.”

“Jones wished to defund the police — similar to AOC,” the narrator says. “He’ll do something to make AOC proud.”

The CLF stated it has reserved $8 million in spending on the race to assist Lawler, with AOC taking part in closely within the advert rotation.

By comparability, Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan considers Ocasio-Cortez a marketing campaign asset. She has stumped for Ryan within the swing 18th District, the place he faces off in opposition to Republican Alison Esposito, retired NYPD deputy inspector and commanding officer. 

On the opposite facet, the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign is in search of to tie Lawler to former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

One 30-second advert exhibits a clip of Trump calling Lawler “spectacular” and then blasts his votes in opposition to abortion rights.

“Possibly Trump thinks Mike Lawler is spectacular as a result of he voted to limit abortion … not less than 10 instances,” the narrator says. “Actually spectacular.”

The Jones marketing campaign rapped Lawler on well being care, claiming in an advert that he opposed decreasing pharmaceuticals for seniors and objected to prohibiting insurance coverage firms from discriminating in opposition to New Yorkers with pre-existing situations like most cancers and bronchial asthma.

Lawler disputed the adverts.