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FIRST ON FOX: As he faces primary challengers in his run for re-election this year, Sen. John Boozman is getting a helping hand from a high-profile fellow Arkansas Republican.
Sen. Tom Cotton calls Arkansas’ senior senator “our conservative fighter,” while starring in Boozman’s latest campaign commercial, which was shared first with Fox News Friday.
“In the Army, we depended on our brothers. In Washington, I depend on John Boozman. We work as a team, agreeing on nearly every vote,” Cotton, an Army veteran who served in combat in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, says in the ad.
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Cotton, who’s built a large national profile during his years in Congress, emphasizes in the spot that “John Boozman fights to secure our border. Fights to protect the unborn. Fights to stop Biden’s crushing inflation.”
And pointing to former President Donald Trump, who remains the most popular and influential politician in the Republican Party, Cotton spotlights that Boozman “has my support and President Trump’s endorsement. I need you to join me in voting for John Boozman.”
Boozman’s campaign notes that this is the senator’s fourth commercial during his re-election bid and that the campaign is spending $340,000 in Arkansas’ relatively inexpensive media markets to run the new ad statewide, beginning Saturday on TV, digital and radio.
The campaign says it will continue to be “heavy and steady” with ad buys until the state’s May 24 primary.
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The senator is facing primary challenges from three other Republicans – former NFL player and U.S. Army veteran Jake Bequette, Pastor Heath Loftis and Jan Morgan, a gun range owner who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018. Fox News was first to report in January that a super PAC supporting Bequette purchased nearly $900,000 in TV airtime to run ads…
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