“Career politician Christy Smith did nothing,” the narrator says in one ad for the Garcia campaign, accusing her of doing little while in the state legislature.
But when it comes to Capitol Hill, voters appear to still want to shake things up, making candidates like Garcia, Sherrill and Crow such key recruits for their respective campaign committees.
Also, Smith’s campaign shows the limitations of trying to tie first-time candidates to President Trump and his more outlandish statements or claims.
“I absolutely do support the president; I always have,” Garcia says in one of Smith’s ads, over a montage of news clips showing Trump boasting about his handling of the pandemic while the death toll skyrocketed.
Following Hill’s resignation in the wake of an inappropriate relationship with a campaign aide, Garcia finished second behind Smith in the all-party initial ballot in early March, finishing well ahead of Knight, a career politician whose father also represented the region in Sacramento.
