Senate GOP super PAC dumps nearly $70M into Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan races

A Senate Republican super PAC aligned with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is pouring $67.5 million into close races in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan to tear down Democrats’ “blue wall.”With fewer than 35 days until the election, the Senate Republican Leadership Fund is shelling out for TV, radio and digital ads targeting Sens.Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) as well as an open seat left by retiring Sen.

Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).The largest sum, $28 million, will be funneled into Pennsylvania, where GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick has closed the polling gap to within the margin of error against Casey in a recent Washington Post poll.That’s on top of $24 million already spent on ads starting in June.Another $22.5 million will help Senate Republican candidate Mike Rogers take on Rep.Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), and $17 million will go toward GOP Senate hopeful Eric Hovde in his bid to unseat Baldwin.The cash infusion to defeat Democrats’ current 51-49 majority in the Senate was first reported Monday by the Wall Street Journal.Republicans in the 2024 election have at least 50 likely or safe Senate seats, as Sen.

Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is leaving a vacancy that is expected to be easily filled by GOP Mountain State Gov.

Jim Justice, according to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.Senate Republican candidate Tim Sheehy is also expected to beat Sen.Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and the race between Democratic Sen.

Sherrod Brown and Republican challenger Bernie Moreno is ranked as a toss-up, Cook Political Report ratings show.The Senate Leadership Fund and its affiliated PAC American Crossroads already pitched in $47.9 million to the Montana race and $77.5 million to the Ohio race earlier this year.Winning either race would secure the Republican Senate majority.But internal polling from the Senate Leadership Fund is showing the contests in the blue wall states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan are also tightening up — at the Senate level and...