{"id":12869,"date":"2025-09-03T12:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-buddy-carter-plasters-trump-all-over-a-new-seven-figure-ad-buy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:17:46","slug":"rep-buddy-carter-plasters-trump-all-over-a-new-seven-figure-ad-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-buddy-carter-plasters-trump-all-over-a-new-seven-figure-ad-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Buddy Carter plasters Trump all over a new seven-figure ad buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Georgia Republican Senate candidate Buddy Carter dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PVpwpo7NhbA&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">a new television ad<\/a> Wednesday, part of a seven-figure blitz that includes the statewide television and streaming spots as well as direct mail aimed at boosting his name ID.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, a fifth-term congressmember, is looking to differentiate himself from a crowded field of candidates to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff that includes fellow Rep. Mike Collins and former college football coach Derek Dooley, a political novice hand-picked by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who officially endorsed Dooley in next year\u2019s marquee Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>The Carter ad touts him as a \u201ctrusted MAGA warrior\u201d and leans fully into culture war issues, including a championing of bans on trans people from girls sports and serving as a staunch ally of President Donald Trump on illegal border crossings. The ad also splices remarks from Trump from a campaign rally in September 2024 in Savannah, where the then-presidential candidate said \u201cBuddy Carter\u2026warrior\u2026great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The adds also notes Carter has \u201cracked up win after win\u201d while in Washington, including the passage of the Laken Riley Act, a law named after a University of Georgia student slain by a migrant and a bill Collins was a lead sponsor of.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Senate contest is expected to be among the most expensive races in next year\u2019s midterms and is a key race for Democrats to hold in a state Trump won last year.<\/p>\n<p>A poll last month from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/08\/07\/mike-collins-georgia-senate-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and and Politics<\/a> showed the contest for the GOP nomination remains relatively tight, with Collins at 27 percent, Carter at 20 percent and Dooley, who launched his bid last month at 8 percent, with nearly 40 percent of Republican voters undecided.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Republican Senate candidate Buddy Carter dropped a new television ad Wednesday, part of a seven-figure blitz that includes the statewide television and streaming spots as well as direct mail aimed at boosting his name ID. Carter, a fifth-term congressmember, is looking to differentiate himself from a crowded field of candidates to unseat incumbent Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}