U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias today launched a new positive campaign ad that features both President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The 30-second spot also features his mother and workers from DesPlaines suitmaker Hartmarx with each of them noting Giannoulias’ compassion and character.

“You can trust him,” President Obama says in the ad. “You can count on him.”

The ad is the first and only in the nation that features the First Lady endorsing a candidate.

CHICAGO – U.S. Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias’ campaign will begin airing a new Spanish language television ad today featuring Congressman Luis Gutierrez explaining why Alexi is the nominee for the Latino community. The ad also slams Congressman Mark Kirk's support for legislation that hurts immigrants and people who help them. The ad can be viewed in its entirety here. Congressman Kirk has consistently supported measures that hurt immigrant families, and finally admitted after the ABC7 debate on October 19 that he would not vote in favor of the DREAM Act.

U.S. Senate Nominee Alexi Giannoulias’ campaign released a new positive ad today that features President Obama and focuses on his successful battle to save jobs at Illinois suit maker Hartmarx.

The 30-second spot begins with the president telling voters they can trust and count on Giannoulias. He then talks about Giannoulias’ efforts as Illinois State Treasurer to prevent Hartmarx from closing and laying off hundreds of workers.

CHICAGO - With less than three weeks left before the November 2 election, Illinois voters who have had enough of the lies and out-of-touch beliefs of Mark Kirk are voicing their opinions in a new ad launched today by U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias.

CHICAGO - As a New Prosperity Foundation ad hits the airwaves repeating a lie that Congressman Mark Kirk served in Iraq, the Alexi for Illinois campaign demanded that Congressman Kirk come clean and answer yes or no on whether or not he was shot at while flying over Iraq and that he stop hiding behind his military fitness reports as an answer.

Chicago – The Alexi for Illinois campaign today released a new ad highlighting the 55 seconds that won the Meet the Press debate when Alexi Giannoulias slammed Congressman Kirk for his continued lies about his fiscal record.

“All of the lies that Congressman Kirk has told about his military service and phantom teaching career do not compare to the lie he tells about being a fiscal conservative. Illinois families deserve the truth from their leaders, not another typical politician like Mark Kirk who has borrowed more, spent more and lied more,” said Alexi for Illinois campaign spokesman Scott Burnham.

As Karl Rove's shady political organization prepares to unleash $1 million worth of negative attack ads on behalf of Congressman Mark Kirk in Illinois this week, an independent, non-partisan watchdog group has called his claims false.

After two decades in Washington DC supporting all of the Bush economic policies that sunk our economy into recession, Congressman Mark Kirk today released another ad that lies about his fiscal record.

CHICAGO - As payback for Congressman Mark Kirk's repeated votes in favor of the disastrous Bush budgets, Karl Rove unleashed a false, negative attack ad today to distract voters.

U.S. Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias, who refuses all corporate PAC and federal lobbyist money, called on Kirk to denounce Rove's history of lies and disclose where the money came from to produce this misleading ad.

CHICAGO - Illinois State Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias today denounced Karl Rove who will enter Illinois politics next week with an onslaught of negative, false television ads for his friend, Congressman Mark Kirk.