{"id":249556,"date":"2021-03-18T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=249556"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:30:22","slug":"pro-israel-group-launches-six-figure-ad-buy-urging-manchin-to-vote-no-on-colin-kahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-israel-group-launches-six-figure-ad-buy-urging-manchin-to-vote-no-on-colin-kahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel Group Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Urging Manchin to Vote No on Colin Kahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-israel-group-launches-six-figure-ad-buy-urging-manchin-to-vote-no-on-colin-kahl%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=249556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1948.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The nation\u2019s largest pro-Israel advocacy group is launching a six-figure TV and digital ad campaign against Pentagon nominee Colin Kahl in West Virginia, calling on Democratic senator Joe Manchin to oppose the nomination due to Kahl\u2019s positions on Israel and Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Christians United for Israel said its TV ads will hit West Virginia airwaves on Saturday, and its online ads will start running on Friday. The ads will air during the highly watched NCAA tournament games, CUFI told the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The group has spent the past two weeks mobilizing its substantial network in West Virginia\u2014it says it has 77,000 members in the state\u2014to urge Manchin to vote no on Kahl, President Joe Biden\u2019s choice for undersecretary of defense for policy. Manchin, who has said he is undecided on the matter, is seen as the swing vote on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is overseeing the nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The CUFI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8px0CXvTGA\">ad<\/a> describes Kahl\u2019s record on Iran as &#8220;disgraceful,&#8221; saying that &#8220;he OK\u2019d Iran enriching uranium for nukes that could destroy Israel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colin Kahl: Unfit to Serve\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8px0CXvTGA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>&#8220;Kahl opposed Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem; backed the disastrous Iran nuclear deal; praised Iran\u2019s supreme leader as heroic,&#8221; says the ad. &#8220;Senator Manchin can stop this disaster. West Virginia stands with Israel. Senator Manchin should too. Oppose Colin Kahl. He is unfit to serve.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The six-figure ad buy follows CUFI\u2019s previous newspaper ad campaign in the state. It also comes days after dozens of West Virginia state legislators sent Manchin a letter urging him to oppose Kahl, writing that&nbsp;<\/span><span>&#8220;you can stand with West Virginia and our ally Israel or Colin Kahl and Iran\u2014but you cannot support both.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kahl supporters have sought to persuade Manchin as well. Earlier this week, former Obama administration official Martin Indyk took time from his extended vacation in Malibu to organize a coalition of Democratic operatives for a pro-Kahl lobbying campaign aimed at influencing Manchin, the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/d-c-foreign-policy-elites-rush-to-shore-up-faltering-pentagon-nomination\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s largest pro-Israel advocacy group is launching a six-figure TV and digital ad campaign against Pentagon nominee Colin Kahl in West Virginia, calling on Democratic senator Joe Manchin to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310787,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1948.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Pro-Israel Group Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Urging Manchin to Vote No on Colin Kahl","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1948.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Pro-Israel Group Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Urging Manchin to Vote No on Colin Kahl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}