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The GOP's main Senate-focused Super PAC—Senate Leadership Fund—drops a massive $13.7M in ads opposing 7 Democratic candidates:
@ossoff (GA)
@RoyCooperNC (NC)
@AbdulElSayed (MI)
@turek4iowa (IA)
@MaryPeltola (AK)
@SherrodBrown (OH)
@TroyJackson207 (ME)
Ken Paxton's Super PAC, Lone Star Liberty, out with another $1.6M ad buy against @jamestalarico, per FEC.
The GOP's main Super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) drops a massive $8.9M in expenditures opposing Democrats in 5 races:
@AbdulElSayed (#MISen)
@RoyCooperNC (#NCSen)
@MaryPeltola (#AKSen)
Troy Jackson (#MESen)
Josh Turek (#IASen)
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
Good @RobletoFire look at Preserve Texas from earlier this year - upshot is the dark money group's "sole incorporator and director" also happens to be the treasurer for the Ken Paxton campaign.
jaeger.substack.com/p/entity…
More ad spending coming for Paxton
Preserve Texas Inc., a dark money group that's been a major donor to the pro-Paxton super PAC, placed a $520k ad buy in the Dallas market for 8/24-9/6, per @AdImpact_Pol
#TXSEN
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
🚨We might have ourselves a race in the #CA14 runoff. State Senator Aisha Wahab leads BART Director Melissa Hernandez 51.35% to 48.65%, separated by 1,692 votes in the initial ballot drop from Alameda County.
Polls close in 1 hour for the #CA14 special election runoff for the remainder of Eric Swalwell's term, with AIPAC's UDP, BOLD America, and others spending upwards of $6.3 million in the last few weeks to boost BART Director Melissa Hernandez and block State Senator Aisha Wahab
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
The EMILY'S List-affiliated Women Vote SuperPAC received a $1 million contribution in July from Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures LLC
🚨The GOP's main Super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), places over $6M in ad buys targeting Troy Jackson, @AbdulElSayed, @RoyCooperNC, and @turek4iowa, per FEC.
Cornerstone Founders uses the same ad buyers (Liberty Buying Partners) as another Alaska-based Super PAC, Right For Alaska—who are opposing Republican #AKSen incumbent Dan Sullivan in favor of Jerry Heikes.
Some possible #AKAL primary meddling
Cornerstone Founders PAC, a mystery group registered in April, is spending $588K on digital ads boosting:
>> Jim McDermott (L), who will "tell both parties to f*** off"
>> Clay Strickland (R) as a pro-Trump conservative
What's going on? 🧵
Pine Tree Results—the billionaire/dark money-funded Susan Collins Super PAC—drops a massive $2.12M ad buy against Troy Jackson in #MESen.
Between Jackson and Platner, PTR has spent over $13M, per FEC filings.
Big money keeps flowing into the #CA14 special runoff, with @AIPAC's United Democracy Project spending another $1.2M on ads opposing @aishabbwahab / supporting Melissa Hernandez.
AIPAC has now spent over $2.4M in the race for Eric Swalwell's now-open seat.
Newly formed, SMP-affilated North Star PAC (not to be confused with North Star Dawn) makes its first spend—$1M+ against Republican Dan Sullivan in #AKSen.
GOP Super PAC registered 5 days ago spends $601K on ads targeting Dem primary winner Adam Hamilton in #KSSen @Hamilton4Kansas
Suspected GOP front PAC Fair Deal Alaska with more direct mailers in #AKSen, spending $67K supporting lesser-known Dem Carol Hafner and Green Party candidate Richard Grayson.
The shady committee has now spent over $757,000.
Potential GOP front PAC Fair Deal Alaska drops another $69K on mailers supporting Green Party's Richard Grayson and underdog Dem Carol Hafner in #AKSen.
They now have spent over $690K elevating alternative "progressive" candidates to Dem frontrunner @MaryPeltola.
The GOP's Senate Leadership Fund places over $3M in ads targeting @AbdulElSayed and @RoyCooperNC, per new FEC filings. #MISen #NCSen
This is a must-read for anyone interested in the boatload of dark money pouring into the midterm elections. Fascinating work.
good stuff here from @JacobRubashkin on one of my favorite topics insideelections.com/untangli…
Robbie Jaeger 🔎 retweeted
good stuff here from @JacobRubashkin on one of my favorite topics insideelections.com/untangli…
314 Action Fund spending big for Matthew Klein in #MN02, with a $1.19M ad buy–bringing their total to over $2.4M so far, per FEC.
