Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott is up with a new ad linking Democrat Alex Sink to President Obama, just as the Republican Governors Association is reportedly transferring $2 million to the Florida Republican Party to help Scott attack his Dem opponent.
The new ad shows footage of Obama urging Florida voters to back Sink, before knocking “liberal Alex Sink” for supporting the president’s “government takeover of health care” and “trillion dollar stimulus bill.”
Scott ran an extremely negative (and successful) campaign against Republican establishment choice Bill McCollum in the primary, and clearly isn’t pulling any punches heading into the general election.
Watch:
The TPM Poll Average shows Sink leading Scott and independent Bud Chiles — who dropped out and endorsed Sink earlier this week — 40.9-36.7-7.7. Rasmussen’s latest poll of the two-way contest shows Sink leading Scott 48-47.
Full coverage of the race here.
(via Politico and the Washington Post)
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