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Congressional Roundup: Ellmers Becomes First GOP Incumbent to Lose
Businessman Ted Budd, who was backed by the Club for Growth’s PAC, won with a small percentage of the vote.
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Businessman Ted Budd, who was backed by the Club for Growth’s PAC, won with a small percentage of the vote.
He also has a Super PAC on his side spending against Ellmers, who was backed by Defending Main Street Super PAC.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reserved $8 million in television advertising for the fall, while the Democratic-aligned Senate Majority PAC has reserved $7.5 million.
He almost entirely self-funded his campaign and benefited from a super PAC funded by his father.
The governor’s Susana PAC has raised more than $2.6 million, while two other super PACs affiliated with Martinez and her top political adviser, Jay McCleskey, have raised $4.2 million in recent
In New York’s 19th District , a super PAC launched an ad calling Republican candidate Andrew Heaney “Obama’s kind of Republican, not ours,” because he gave $2,300 to then Sen.
He could still get help from some GOP groups: Ian Prior, spokesman for the GOP Super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, said the group hasn’t “ruled out getting involved in that primary.”
“If the club wasn’t involved, no one would know they’re voting in three weeks,” Kish said. [ Club for Growth Endorses Renee Ellmers Challenger ] The club’s PAC backed gun range owner
House Majority PAC, the group that helps elect Democrats to the House, announced Tuesday an additional $5.2 million in early TV reservations for the final weeks of the election.
House Majority PAC, an outside group that supports Democrats running for the House, and CHC Bold PAC, the “voice for Latinos in American politics,” are going up with a $300,000 media campaign Tuesday
The Right to Rise USA PAC for Bush, a onetime front-runner in the campaign’s early days, failed to engender support for its candidate at the polls.
A super PAC that supports the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is trying to turn that into a money-making opportunity.
The group’s super PAC has spent nearly $500,000 against her. Ellmers, who campaigns with a pocket copy of the Constitution, calls herself a “common sense conservative.”
And the Our Principles PAC , a Super PAC formed to oppose Trump, has spent roughly $16 million.
[Related: When Motherhood Sets Your Congressional Campaign Apart] Besides the hundreds of thousands of dollars he donated to his own campaign, Hollingsworth also benefited from a super PAC funded by
Related: Senate GOP Campaigns Prepare for the Worst: Trump ] But the need to keep fighting the GOP front-runner is also moral, says Tim Miller, an adviser to the anti-Trump group Our Principles PAC
He seized on Young’s support from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC started by operatives of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to cast him as Washington’s hand-picked candidate.
There are no guaranteed strategies other than maybe using a time machine to go back to last fall to get the GOP super PAC billionaires to take down Trump while they still had a shot
In Pennsylvania, for example, the club’s super PAC aired a TV ad attacking Katie McGinty the morning after her Democratic primary victory (they’d prepared a similar hit against Joe Sestak).
The PAC has endorsed Johnson’s opponent, Democratic former Sen.