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Unlike in 2018, this year’s “green wave” of Democratic money didn’t produce a “blue wave” of victories, thanks in part to a super PAC that helped Republicans close the spending gap.
John Hickenlooper will defeat Gardner, Senate Majority PAC canceled $1.2 million worth of TV ads in Colorado last month.
A Republican super PAC, aligned with the party’s Senate leadership, will infuse $9 million into the Senate race in Michigan where incumbent Democrat Gary Peters faces GOP challenger John James.
CUNA’s PAC, one of the bigger business-oriented ones, has donated more than $4.5 million to candidates, Hawkins said.
SBA List and its partner super PAC, Women Speak Out, planned to spend $52 million for this cycle, nearly triple the amount it spent in 2016.
Term-limited from serving again, he opted not to run for another leadership post this Congress and instead focus on running the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s campaign arm, BOLD PAC, which he’s chaired
Beginning in mid-August, One Nation, an outside group affiliated with the GOP super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, reserved $4.5 million in television, cable and radio ads against Peters.
the 2016 elections, labor-affiliated political action committees spent $331.5 million — about 14 percent less than the $385.7 million spent by corporate PACs and a fraction of the $4 billion in total PAC
Case in point: The Congressional Leadership Fund, a House Republican-aligned super PAC, sent cash to the Illinois Conservative PAC, which in turn disclosed spending more than $900,000 against Oberweis
“It’s almost hard to put into words the lack of authentic support when it comes to putting forward policies that build up the Black community,” said Chris Scott, political director of The Collective PAC
One Nation, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the GOP super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, has reserved $4.5 million in television, cable and radio time to begin running Wednesday.
EDF Action Votes, a super PAC promoting the Environmental Defense Fund, spent $100,000 on TV ads during the primary to promote his work to protect the Florida coast.
Calvin Moore, a spokesman for the GOP super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund, said in a Tuesday statement that “House Democrats will have a difficult time keeping up their phony moderate charades.”
Drain the DC Swamp PAC has also spent more than $46,000 for digital, radio and TV ads supporting her, all since the report was published.
Outside groups, such as the Democratic-aligned Senate Majority PAC, have made the race a priority.
A super PAC called US Future Fund spent almost half a million dollars on McClain’s behalf.
partisan super PACs placed nearly $100 million combined in initial ad reservations — $43 million by the GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund and $51 million by the Democratic-aligned House Majority PAC
very deep emotional connection to casting a ballot in person, to really be able to see and hold that receipt that your ballot was cast,” said Sabrina Stevens, a campaign director for Color of Change PAC
VIEW PAC, a group focused on supporting female Republican candidates, has endorsed Afendoulis.
That doesn’t include money it will raise over the next six months or that could be spent by Senate Majority PAC, the go-to Democratic outside group for Senate races, or an independent expenditure by the