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DSCC buys $12 million more in Senate battleground ads

By Burgess Everett
05/16/16 06:29 PM EDT
Updated 05/16/16 08:46 PM EDT

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The campaign arm for the Senate Democrats is launching its second round of general election ad buys, committing $12 million to three of the most contested Senate races on Monday evening, a source familiar with the buy told POLITICO.

The bulk of the money, $8.2 million, will be spent in Pennsylvania. Democrats are looking to knock off GOP Sen. Pat Toomey after Katie McGinty won a bruising Democratic primary against former Rep. Joe Sestak,propelled in part by an endorsement and rare ad campaign on behalf of McGinty by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.




Alleigh Marre, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said, "It's going to take a lot more than $10 million from national Democrats" for Pennsylvania to elect McGinty to the Senate, referring to the $2 million the DSCC already committed to McGinty in the primary.
"it’s going to take a lot more than $10 million from national democrats to convince Pennsylvania voters that lobbyist Katie McGinty would serve anyone but herself as a United States Senator,"

Democrats are also committing $2 million each to Wisconsin and Illinois, where Sens. Ron Johnson and Mark Kirk are considered the most vulnerable Republican incumbents.

The $12 million commitment to general election ads follows a massive $37 million round of reservations in April, totaling $49 million for the November elections for Senate Democrats. The first round of ad buys in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire and Ohio were mainly in presidential battlegrounds, while the three states the DSCC committed to on Monday are considered less competitive at the presidential level, though Donald Trump is threatening to contest states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The NRSC has also reserved $28 million in general election ads and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman himself locked up $14 million in TV ads just last week.