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Six states in initial buys:
AZ CO IA KY ME NC
Link to tweet
Senate Leadership Fund's initial ads, beginning immediately after Labor Day, represent more than double the investment the group made at the outset of the 2018 midterms.
Republicans' top super PAC focused on Senate races is booking more than $67 million for TV ads this fall, a massive early investment in a core group of battleground states.
The Senate Leadership Fund, which is run by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is reserving $67.1 million in TV ads across six Senate states including McConnell's home state of Kentucky starting the day after Labor Day and running through Election Day, according to details shared exclusively with POLITICO. The sum is more than double the amount the super PAC booked in its initial TV ad investment for the 2018 midterms and at least $25 million more than they initially booked in 2016.
The ads were booked to run in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine and North Carolina, all states with Republican incumbents that are considered critical to the Senate majority. The initial investments did not include Alabama and Michigan, the two Democrat-held seats where Republicans are on offense. Additional investments in other Senate races are likely to come as the campaigns unfold.
Protecting our Republican Senate majority has become synonymous with ensuring a firewall against the Democrats far-left ambitions," Steven Law, the president of SLF, said in a statement. "This initial investment wont be our last, but it is more than double what we initially reserved in 2018, and it demonstrates we intend to hold the line.
More: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/23/mcconnell-aligned-super-pac-ads-144387
still_one
(92,595 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)still_one
(92,595 posts)BComplex
(8,102 posts)Democrats need to counter this! Will Bloomberg out-do the republican spending on behalf of the country?
leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)And he knows which Senators are vulnerable, just as Moscow Mitch does.
Mitchy must be getting nervous.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)lame54
(35,394 posts)Joe call in to news shows like Trump does and get that free air time
Campaign campaign campaign
Trump is actively campaigning and Joe is now forgotten
Facebook PSA's are not enough
Get your face and voice on all mediums
still_one
(92,595 posts)lame54
(35,394 posts)Joe is here and there
Yeah that'll cut it
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)bdamomma
(63,998 posts)nt
alwaysinasnit
(5,088 posts)their majority is endangered.
CatWoman
(79,303 posts)that's why he needs that money
2naSalit
(87,090 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)mitch96
(13,954 posts)Oleg Derapaska and his brand new aluminum plant in Kentucky I bet.. da tavarish?
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