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GOP Super PAC Goes After Ossoff’s Out-of-State Money
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC endorsed by House GOP leadership, went to San Francisco to film its first advertisement of the runoff.
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The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC endorsed by House GOP leadership, went to San Francisco to film its first advertisement of the runoff.
In the race for Montana’s at-large House seat, Republican Greg Gianforte led Democratic Rob Quist by six points in a poll conducted by a Democratic super PAC late last month.Â
The super PAC raised and spent $90 million during the 2016 election cycle, helping elect eight new members of Congress and four new senators. WOMEN VOTE!
The company’s PAC reported bringing in nearly $1.6 million during the 2016 cycle, according to campaign finance reports.
Now that the Republican field has been winnowed from 11 to one in Georgia’s 6th District, a major GOP super PAC is increasing its spending to boost GOP nominee Karen Handel in the June runoff.Â
As national attention turns to the special election in Montana, the super PAC backed by House GOP leadership is deploying House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a new TV attack on Democratic nominee Rob
Liberal super PAC American Bridge 21st Century is targeting three vulnerable Republicans to push for an independent commission to investigate Russian ties to President Donald Trump’s administration.
The 45Committee has ties to a super PAC that spent on Handel’s behalf and has backed other establishment-friendly Republicans in congressional primaries.Â
Craig, who started the Americans for Self-Rule PAC, said she already had some idea of whom her group could target next. Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett and Florida Sen.
Saxby Chambliss endorsed Handel, and she benefited from outside spending from Ending Spending Action Fund, a super PAC that backs establishment candidates.
Saxby Chambliss and Ending Spending Action Fund, an establishment-friendly Republican super PAC, endorsed Handel.Â
The PACÂ spent more than $15 million on House and Senate races in the 2016 cycle, helping elect 15 new members.Â
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC backed by House GOP leadership, spent five figures on phone calls.
Its affiliated super PAC doesn't play in primaries but it has already pulled its staff out of Iowa's 3rd District where Republican Rep. David Young, not a caucus member, opposed the legislation.
And the super PAC allied with House leadership, the Congressional Leadership Fund, had no tolerance for typically leadership-friendly members who didn't get on board with the bill.
A new ad from a Democratic super PAC pushing for a special prosecutor to investigate possible ties between President Donald Trump and Russia is directed toward millennial women.
The super PAC tied to House GOP leadership is already spending on television ads in both Georgia and Montana to attack Democratic candidates.
A Republican super PAC will begin running TV and digital ads on Monday against Montana’s freshly minted Democratic nominee for the at-large House seat — before the GOP even has a nominee of its own.Â
On Thursday, the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC tied to House GOP leadership, launched a $1.1 million ad campaign attacking Ossoff as inexperienced and dishonest.
A Democratic super PAC is targeting two GOP senators up for re-election in 2018, urging them to back an independent investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia.