Posted on 08/16/2022 5:05:37 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
As midterm election campaigns heat up in the Senate’s top battlegrounds, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is canceling millions of dollars of ad spending, sending GOP campaigns and operatives into a panic and upending the committee’s initial spending plan.
The cuts — totaling roughly $13.5 million since Aug. 1 — come as the Republicans’ Senate campaign committee is being forced to “stretch every dollar we can,” said a person familiar with the NRSC’s deliberations. Republican nominees in critical states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina — places the GOP must defend this fall — have failed to raise enough money to get on air themselves, requiring the NRSC to make cuts elsewhere to accommodate.
Since Aug. 1, the NRSC has cut ad buys in the battleground states of Pennsylvania ($7.5 million), Arizona ($3.5 million), Wisconsin ($2.5 million) and Nevada ($1.5 million), according to the ad tracking service AdImpact. Separately, a Democratic source tracking advertising buys estimated roughly $10.5 million in cuts by the NRSC since the first of the month.
“People are asking, ‘What the hell is going on?’” said one Republican strategist working on Senate races. “Why are we cutting in August? I’ve never seen it like this before.”
While the scale of these cuts is unprecedented, the NRSC is also ahead of its typical schedule on its ad spending, having already spent $36.5 million on television spots this cycle, as opposed to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s $1.9 million to date. Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the NRSC, announced earlier this year the campaign committee would be spending sooner than in years past. It was a necessary change, Scott said, to prevent Democrats from having the airwaves to themselves all summer.
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Dr. Oz is a democrat party plant.
GOPe RINOS are happy. F the GOP. Post Trump, whenever that is, is finished. F them all.
The Turtle rolls over yet again.
We are 90 days out form an election otherwise known as the silly season. This story is BS.
Better a Demonrat get elected then a GOPe RINO.
I only give to the candidate and have written the RNC at least a couple of times telling them why. Apparently I’m not alone.
Wow..... you got to say Turtle even though he is not relevant to the thread
NRSC endorsed candidates in trouble.
NRSC, the committee for the turtle, romney, murky...
Patriots should directly support their Conservative candidate, bypassing the treasonous NRSC.
No one is interested in donating to the Do-Nothing GOP machinery
Mitch McConnel is throwing the Senate to avoid accountability for the rigged election. We are ruled by demons.
Senate GOP re-election committee is a sock puppet of McTurtle.
The Club for Growth used to help with that a long time ago. And the guy in charge was once a decent individual.
He’s not? Really?
China Mitch is a better handle
1000% agree- its not even Labor Day.
This is just BS by the criminal liberal media to discourage people
I suspect they are worried that Trump endorsed candidates might win.
THAT could be a problem for them.
Yea, people need to not send money directly to rino party, should send to an American first one.
Or maybe the NRSC spent $36 million to support establishment GOP candidates against MAGA challengers.
Easy to believe that GOP’s rich Mandarins are frightened to the core that populist deplorables want representatives that speak for their values and issues. They were ruthlessly effective in their cold precision in cancelling or defeating Michigan MAGA hopefuls, supporting vote splitters even creating designated losers (who is tudor whatshername anyway). The Devos billions are no different than the Soros billions in their impacts against those uppity commoners.
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