Subject: “Trump of a Week” for Congressman Heck
From: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
To: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:00:42 -0700

​For Immediate Release

May 13, 2016

Contact: Sarah Zukowski, [email-masked]

“Trump of a Week” for Congressman Heck

Congressman Heck already shared Donald Trump’s agenda – now he’s
“absorbing” Trump’s campaign message

Las Vegas, NV – Nevada Republican candidates had a photogenic
<https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiRs1ciU4AAnkKo.png:large> week. Speaker Paul
Ryan had a groveling
<http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/11/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-meeting/>
week. Mitt Romney had an ironic
<http://time.com/4327012/mitt-romney-donald-trump-tax-returns/> week.
Congressman Heck had (another) Trump of a week.

It’s been another bad week for Congressman Heck as the Washington
Republicans propping up his campaign got called out by the Las Vegas
Review-Journal
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/columns-blogs/steve-sebelius/no-cozy-relationship-settlement-case-ag-catherine-cortez-masto>’s
Steve Sebelius for lying about Catherine Cortez Masto.

Then, after doubling down
<https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/730450913110962176> on endorsing
presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump last week, Congressman Heck
moved even closer to Trump this week when he adopted Trump’s campaign
message
<http://catherinecortezmasto.com/post/144254281654/jon-ralston-congressman-heck-fully-absorbs>.
Congressman Heck stated to CNN that “anybody who wants to restore America’s
greatness … I’m for," and as explained by Jon Ralston
<http://catherinecortezmasto.com/post/144254281654/jon-ralston-congressman-heck-fully-absorbs>,
that means, “Restore America’s greatness = Make American Great Again. Full
absorption.”

Let’s remember what Trump means when he says he wants to “Make America
Great Again” – restricting a woman’s right to choose and deporting
thousands of Nevada DREAMers, to start. Gee – no wonder Congressman Heck
supports him.

This week left no question that Congressman Heck’s endorsement of Trump and
their shared anti-immigrant, anti-women agenda will hurt the Congressman’s
campaign for Senate.

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   New Poll
   <http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/05/ryan-disliked-by-republicans-trump-could-hurt-down-ballot.html>
   Shows 45% of Voters Less Likely to Vote for GOP Senate Candidate Who
   Supports Trump.

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   Trump Makes Life Harder for Colorado and Nevada Senate Candidates: Large
   Latino populations make flipping those seats harder for Republicans. “It's
   “damn hard” for Republicans to win a state like Nevada with a minuscule
   proportion of the Latino vote, said Democratic pollster Mark
   Mellman....Each state’s Republican nominee will need to court Latino voters
   while running alongside a candidate who, according to polls, is deeply
   unpopular with Hispanic voters
   <https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-lasting-damage-gop>. And
   some of the [GOP’s] deftest strategists acknowledge that that complication
   might be close to impossible to overcome.” [Roll Call
   <http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-makes-life-harder-colorado-nevada-senate-candidates>,
   5/12/16]

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   GOP ‘Trump Effect’ Could Be Outdone in Nevada by Latinos Flocking to
   Democrats, Noted Professor Says. “Donald Trump is talking about all the
   new people (he has) brought in,” Herzik said of the GOP. “But the Democrats
   are doubling new registrants when compared with Republicans in
   Nevada”...The Trump/Latino dynamic could hurt GOP candidates down the
   ticket in Nevada, Herzik said. [Nevada NewsMakers
   <http://nevadanewsmakers.com/RayHagar/article.asp?ID=25>, 5/11/16]
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      VIDEO <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwCppNitfKM&feature=youtu.be>:
      “Heck has got the problem that all down-ballot Republicans have,” Herzik
      said. “They’ve got to deal with the Trump issue, and particularly in
      Nevada, they’ve got to deal with the Trump issue on Latinos. And he
      is facing a Latina and a woman. I think that is a real problem for
      Joe Heck.”

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   Two Things Could Doom the GOP in Key Senate Races – Trump and
Latinos. Republicans
   like Congressman Heck who are likely to share the November ballot with
   Trump, will also share the cost of Trump’s 87% unfavorability among
   Latinos. “This year’s electorate will be the most diverse in U.S.
   history, which makes it almost ironic that this election season has also
   been one of the most divisive against virtually every minority group...In
   Nevada, “since [2012], Hispanic voter registration has surged, and
   Latinos now makes up more than 17 percent of eligible voters in Nevada.”
   [MSNBC
   <http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/two-things-could-doom-the-gop-key-senate-races-trump-and-latinos>,
   5/12/16]

Washington Republicans Busted for Spreading Lies - Sad!

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   A new ad from a Koch Brothers’ funded group was called out for spreading
   falsehoods about Catherine Cortez Masto’s record by selectively arranging
   facts to lead to a false conclusion. Despite the Koch Brothers’ attempt
   to prop up Congressman Heck, their blatant attacks on his opponent were
   exposed as being blatantly untrue, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter
   Steve Sebelius wrote “No ‘Cozy Relationship’ In Settlement Case — AG
   Catherine Cortez Masto Did Her Job.” [Las Vegas Review-Journal, Column,
   5/10/16
   <http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/columns-blogs/steve-sebelius/no-cozy-relationship-settlement-case-ag-catherine-cortez-masto>
   ]

Unlike Congressman Heck and Washington Republicans, American Public Doesn’t
Think Picking Supreme Court Justice and Celebrity Apprentice Winner Are the
Same.

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   Despite what Congressional Republicans like Congressman Heck might have
   you think, the ability to pick a reality TV show winner does not
   automatically qualify one to pick the next Justice for the Supreme Court.
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   A new poll
   <http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/05/americans-dont-trust-trump-on-supreme-court-vacancy-65-want-hearings.html>
   shows that the majority of Americans do not trust Donald Trump to fill the
   Supreme Court’s vacant seat, and barely more than half of Republican voters
   polled trust their Party’s nominee to fill the seat. Yet, as usual,
   Congressman Heck is following the lead of his Party’s bosses in Washington
   and supports Senate Republicans’ plan to go a whole year without doing
   their jobs and putting the task of appointing the next Supreme Court
   Justice to Donald Trump.

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