McConnell-Aligned PAC Drops First Ad of Pennsylvania Senate Spending Blitz

A political action committee with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has launched its first attack ad against Lt. Gov. John Fetterman as Dr. Mehmet Oz, his Republican rival in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, suffers in the polls.

The ad, released by the Senate Leadership Fund, is part of a $34 million spending blitz in Pennsylvania by the group and accuses Fetterman of having a lenient record on crime.

“Violent crime surging. John Fetterman’s answer? Let criminals out of prison,” the narrator of the 30-second ad says. “As head of the board of pardons, Fetterman’s trying to get as many criminals out of prison as he can.”

The commercial also claims the Democrat supports sanctuary cities and ending “life sentences for felony murder,” concluding that “Fetterman is just too far-left.”