Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes uses her grandmother in a new ad to criticize Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Medicare.
In the one-minute ad airing statewide, Grimes and her grandmother Elsie tell the story of how her grandfather struggled with medical bills after a stroke.
“We scrimped and saved but suddenly our finances were going to medical bills,” Elsie says.
Grimes then says McConnell voted to “raise seniors’ Medicare costs.”
The ad appears to be an attempt to turn the tide of the election, which seems to be favoring McConnell right now, by using both her family and bringing up healthcare, a topic that some Democrats have shied away from.
When Grimes ran and was elected Kentucky’s secretary of state in 2011, she used both Elsie and her other grandmother, Thelma, in a TV spot that was considered one of the most memorable of that election cycle.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows McConnell ahead of Grimes by 5 points.
