Josh Voorhees at Slate:
When Amy McGrath, a Kentucky Democrat, kicked off her congressional campaign last year with a slickly produced ad about her struggle to become the first female fighter pilot, it was hailed as the best ad of the early midterms cycle and helped vault her to a primary victory last month. Now, a Democrat in Texas may have done her one better.
MJ Hegar, an Air Force veteran who is running against Republican Rep. John Carter in a dark-red district in central Texas, released a bio ad on Wednesday that tells the story of how her military helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and how she later sued the Pentagon to overturn its ban on women serving in ground-combat.
Some high praise from a famous source:
MJ, you made the best political ad anyone's ever seen.— 🇵🇷 Lin-Manuel Miranda 🏳️🌈 (@Lin_Manuel) June 22, 2018
I should be asking YOU for help! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 https://t.co/5nNjOp3vT7 https://t.co/xXeBYmTEml
