Infamous Attack Ads
Races to Watch on Tuesday
Civics 101
Congressional History
NJ Politics
100
This 2026 candidate ran an attack ad featuring their opponent's mother, Donna Arthur, claiming that her own daughter was a liar.
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy?
100
This 2026 U.S. Senate candidate was indicted for fraud, impeached by his own party, and divorced by his wife on biblical grounds, along with a multitude of other crimes.
Who is Ken Paxton?
100
The amount of Senators required to remove the President from office through impeachment.
What is 67?
100
Expelled from Congress in 2023, this former Congressman went viral in 2022 after his upset victory because it came out that he falsified his entire background, claiming to be a Baruch College Volleyball champion among other claims.
Who is George Santos?
100
The Raymour and Flanigan truck driver who defeated NJ State Senate President Steve Sweeney in the 2021 election.
Who is Ed Durr?
200
A 2024 Trump campaign attack ad going after Kamala Harris for past support of gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners claimed that Harris was for ____, not you.
Who is "They/Them"?
200
First elected to Congress as a Democrat in 2018, this incumbent faces a closer than expected race heading into Tuesday in his Southern New Jersey district.
Who is Jeff Van Drew?
200
The foundational Supreme Court Case that established the principle of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison
200
After delivering a fiery anti-slavery speech titled "The Crime Against Kansas," this Massachusetts Senator was brutally beat with a cane until it broke on the floor of the Senate in 1856.
Who is Charles Sumner?
200
"We're from Jersey baby, and you're not" became a viral sensation after this NJ politician screamed it while addressing the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Who is Phil Murphy?
300
A 2012 Obama-campaign ad calling out Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney for foreign entanglements featured Romney singing this patriotic American tune at a campaign rally.
What is America the Beautiful?
300
This 2026 state-wide election features these two candidates (show below) who look like they should be featured in a local theater group's Murder Mystery Dinner.
What is the 2026 Wyoming Senate Election?
300
This 1819 Supreme Court Case established the doctrine of implied powers and national supremacy.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
300
Serving in the U.S. Senate from 1956 until his death in 2003, this Senator conducted a 24-hour and 18-minute solo filibuster on August 28–29, 1957, to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
300
Amidst a fight for re-election, this NJ Governor was involved in the temporary closing of the George Washington Bridge because the Mayor of Fort Lee refused to endorse him.
Who is Chris Christie?
400
In an ad titled "Windsurfing", this then-Presidential candidate was seen riding the waves on a surfboard as conflicting votes they made over their Senate career appeared on screen.
Who is John Kerry?
400
Amidst allegations that this sitting U.S. Congressman poured boiling hot water on his wife and broke his daughter's collar bone, he is seeking an uphill re-election fight this year.
Who is Max Miller?
400
The enumerated powers are listed in this section of the U.S. Constitution.
What is Article 1?
400
Serving as the Speaker of the House from 1993 to 2007, this former Congressman was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys in 2016.
Who is Dennis Hastert?
400
Elected in 1993, this New Jersey Governor was the first woman to serve in the role.
Who is Christine Todd Whitman?
500
A 2022 attack ad against this now U.S. Senator parodied the "Wellerman" Sea Shanty, stating "Soon may the ______ come to bring us radical socialism"
Who is Fetterman?
500
This sitting U.S. Congresswoman, running for re-election this year, faced backlash in the Spring after agreeing in an interview that Hakeem Jeffries should keep his "cotton-picking hands" off her state.
Who is Jen Kiggans?
500
The minimum amount of signatures needed to file a cloture motion in the U.S. Senate.
What is 16?
500
Representing Youngstown, Ohio in Congress until 2002, this then Mahoning County Sherriff signed the arrest warrant for Amy Acton's stepfather.
Who is James Traficant?
500
The unwritten legislative procedure that allows State Senators to block judicial appointments from their home county if they so choose to do so.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?