Pennsylvania’s Conor Lamb hypes electability in first Senate campaign ad

Rep. Conor Lamb is playing the electability card in the first television ad for his U.S. Senate campaign in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

The 30-second “Must Win” ad introduces the 37-year-old Pittsburgh-area Democrat to statewide voters who may be unfamiliar with his background and drives home the idea that his record makes him the party’s best bet of flipping retiring GOP Sen. Patrick Toomey’s seat.

“Conor Lamb believes our democracy is worth fighting for,” the narrator says in the ad. “As a young man he joined the Marines, then became a federal prosecutor. And when a mob stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Lamb stood up to...