Arizona TV stations continue to reap the benefits of Arizona's swing state status, as the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ("DSCC") today disclosed a $1.8M ad buy to blast Blake Masters.
The buy - actually, two separate spends - brings the DSCC total benefitting Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in his re-election battle to just over $5.3M for the cycle.
Its Republican counterpart ("NRSC") last disclosed a new buy two weeks ago, but has spent more than $6.1M.
The NRSC and the DSCC are the parties' official disclosed-money operations to support U.S. Senate campaigns. Both are paired with operations that accept dark money contributions, and Republican leader Mitch McConnell is currently in a dispute with Blake Masters' benefactor and former employer, Peter Thiel over who should fund the negative ads against Kelly. According to yesterday's Washington Post, the Senate Leadership Fund canceled $8M in ad reservations to pound Kelly during the next few weks.
Here are the amounts spent to date in this cycle by each of these major organizations:
MARK KELLY
$29,775,670.13 Kelly's official campaign committee (not just advertising) (thru 7/31)
$ 5,301,779.57 DSCC (thru 9/1 IE reports)
$ 2,966,161.10 SMP (partly dark) (thru 8/31 IE reports)
$ Majority Forward (nothing reported to FEC this cycle, but have run ads)
$38,043,610.80
BLAKE MASTERS
$ 3,338,840.68 Masters' official campaign committee (not just advertising) (thru 7/13)
$ 6,143,060.12 NRSC (thru 8/20 IE reports)
$ Senate Leadership Fund (nothing reported to FEC this cycle, but have run ads)
$ One Nation (nothing reported to FEC this cycle, but have run ads)
$10,651,381.19 Saving Arizona PAC (Thiel-funded pro-Masters Super-PAC) (thru 8/2 IE reports)
$20,133,281.99
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