DCCC Launches Five-Figure Billboard Campaign Targeting Five Freshman Republicans Linked to Rep. George Santos

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is launching a five-figure billboard campaign targeting five freshman Republicans who accepted donations from Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). The campaign is aimed at Reps. Nick LaLota, Anthony D’Esposito, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro and Brandon Williams, all of whom helped Republicans win a narrow majority last fall by winning seats that President Joe Biden had carried.

The billboards will focus on Santos’s financial issues, which have come to light in recent months. Molinaro and D’Esposito have both returned the money from Santos, but the billboards will still be displayed in their districts.

Rep. LaLota, who previously served on the Suffolk County, New York, board of elections, took to Twitter to express his outrage over Santos’s alleged fraud. “I didn’t see a more provable case of election fraud in my seven years as elections commissioner than the fraud committed by George Santos,” he wrote. LaLota went on to call for Santos’s expulsion from Congress, saying, “I’m for election integrity. I’m for expelling George Santos.”

The DCCC’s billboard campaign is the latest effort to link vulnerable New York Republicans to Rep. Santos. It remains to be seen whether or not the campaign will be successful in swaying voters in the upcoming election. However, it is clear that the DCCC is determined to make Santos a major liability for the GOP in key swing districts.