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for the content of this advertising. That was an ad from Senate leadership fund, which is essentially the Super PAC arm for Senate Republican leadership. It's remarkable to see a Republican group target a Republican congressman like this, especially one who is friendly with the president, but Doug Collins is not the party's candidate in Georgia. Leaders have made it clear there was Senator Kelly Leffler, who was recently appointed to the seat and is hoping to win the November special election to fill the remainder of the term. Greg, what did you see here? That's right. As you mentioned, the Senate Republican leadership does not please that Collins has decided to challenge fellow Republican Kelly Leffler, who isn't mentioned in this ad, by the way. She was appointed to the Senate just two months ago and she's concentrating on, you know, airing some ads and building her legislative record. And you don't want to start out negative ads when you're running your own campaign. You want to start building your biography and doing things like that. And that's what she's been doing, airing some positive ads. But if you have a Super PAC ally, they often do the dirty work for candidates. And so they can run the negative ads and you can sort of, as a candidate, stay above the fray. So the fact that didn't mention Leffler was interesting. They go after Collins by linking him to Stacey Abrams, who was Georgia's Democratic candidate for governor in that close 2018 race and a rising star in the party. And I noted it invoked criminal justice policies and legislation. They call Collins like the criminal's best friend or something like that. It refers to a criminal justice overhaul bill he sponsored in the last Congress, 115th Congress, that had actually had a lot of bipartisan sponsors, including Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. Some other members of Congress, you wouldn't exactly call liberals as some conservative Republicans. So trying to use Collins's bipartisan work with Democrats, including Hakeem Jeffries, to criticize him and try and paint him as a not conservative. Yeah. And just because he was this outspoken upfront on Fox News all the time, supporter of Donald Trump during the impeachment hearings, they want to make sure voters in Georgia know or at least think he's not a conservative. He's not the conservative in the race. That instead is Kelly Leffler, who I think has promised to spend something like $20 million of her own money on the race, which is something I'm sure a Senate Republican leaders like to hear as well, because that makes it just a little bit easier to win that state. Okay. Up next, we'll talk a little more Super Tuesday with Democratic Congressman Ami Barra. From Washington, this is Bloomberg governments down ballot counts. Joining us now is Congressman Ami Barra, a California Democrat. He shares the new Dem action fund, the political arm of the largest ideological caucus in Congress, the new Democrat coalition. Senator Ami Barra, thanks for coming on down ballot counts. Glad to be on. Thanks for having me. Congressman, you endorsed Joe Biden in December. He cleaned up on Tuesday, winning 10 of the 14 states and surging to elite delegates. Bloomberg government and other publications have quoted numerous members of Congress since Tuesday, who were ecstatic about the results. So I want to start there. What does that mean for your efforts to hold the House majority? He knows one of the frontline co-chairs, I think it just made my job a lot easier with the down ballot races. If you think about the scheduled Joe Biden kept in 2018, he traveled to a lot of these districts that we picked up and delivered the majority for us. So he was welcomed openly by a lot of our frontline members, the most vulnerable Democrats. And I think for a lot of those members, there's a big sigh of relief that now that it looks like Joe Biden is on a path to our nominee. And that's because he doesn't turn off swing voters in these districts, right? I mean, his message, he's obviously not pitching Medicare for all and some of the things that Bernie Sanders is. Absolutely. If you look at the issues that our freshmen members who won ran on, it was lowering the cost of prescription drugs, it was making healthcare more affordable, but it wasn't this Bernie Sanders agenda of getting rid of private health insurance or immediately going off of all fossil fuels, et cetera. Those are issues that they get talked about, but they get talked about in more incremental rational way. And if you look at the folks that voted on Tuesday, you saw record turnout, and it's almost the same coalition that delivered us the majority in these suburbs, the folks that came out and voted against Trump, but voted in these freshmen members. You saw that in Virginia, you saw that in North Carolina, you saw that across the board. So, you know, when we talk about expanding the base and the turnout and enthusiasm, Joe Biden is the one who accomplished that and it was the same as what we saw in 2018. A congress with more than 100 members, the new Democrat coalition, what exactly is a new