DES MOINES — Beer and burgers for cookouts cost more this Labor Day weekend and Republican policies are to blame, a new series of ads aired by Democrats claims.

The digital ads will run on YouTube and Instagram over the holiday weekend and will target men ages 18 to 44 in competitive U.S. House districts, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which produced the ads.

The ads — one video and one static — are part of a five-figure ad buy, said the DCCC, which is the campaign arm of U.S. House Democrats. The ads will run in the group’s 35 “districts in play,” which include Iowa’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd congressional districts.

The ads claim beef prices are up 28% and that the price of beer is “soaring,” and that federal Republicans’ policies are to blame. To complete the b

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