According to FEC filings, the Mitch McConnell-backed supercommittee PAC spent a total of $18 million on several recent Senate races while ignoring Arizona’s Senate race with Trump-approved candidate Blake Masters.
The cash backing is part of the sharp spending increase by the Post-Labor Day Senate Leaders Fund, led by McConnell’s former chief of staff, Stephen Lowe. That money funds nearly every pending Senate race, with the exception of Arizona. politics cost distribution reports:
- $2 million in NevadaAdam Laxalt and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto)
- 2.4 million, Wisconsin (Senator Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes)
- $3.1 million (JD Vance and Representative Tim Ryan)
- $3.5 million North Carolina (Ted Budd and Cherie Beasley)
- $3.6 million Pennsylvania (Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman)
- $3.7 million, Georgia (Herschel Walker and Senator Raphael Warnock)
The lack of funding for the Blake Masters raises questions about why the McConnell-backed GAC supercommittee did not support the Trump-sanctioned candidate in his contentious race against Senator Mark Kelly (DR). The Official leads the Masters by about five points.
According to the report politics In August, the Senate Leadership Fund abruptly canceled an ad purchase in Arizona worth nearly $8 million. That left MAGA’s billionaire investor, Peter Thiel, to persuade the fund to reinvest in the race.
McConnell told Thiel last week on the phone that Vance’s work in Ohio is costing the Senate Leadership Fund more than it should, the money is not unlimited, and the billionaire needs to be “big.” in Arizona” Washington post reported last week.
“Here, in a phone call to Thiel the day before his band cut the ads in Arizona, he expressed Masters’ concerns as a candidate and his pessimism about the viability of his campaign,” the statement said. Mail more. “Both Vance, 38, and Masters, 36, are Thiel’s friends and former business associates; Masters stepped down from his position at the investment firm and the Thiel fund this year.”
McConnell’s attack on Thiel could be a front for his feud with Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who chairs the National Republican Senator’s Committee (NRSC) and is responsible for the Senate recapture in 2022. McConnell’s GOP wing blames McConnell’s NRSC agenda on “scavenger” MAGA Republicans like Blake Masters who allegedly disagreed with McConnell:
Senator McConnell and I obviously have strategic differences… We have excellent candidates. … And I think it’s important that we all support our candidates. … if you disparage our candidates … you will destroy our chances of winning and destroy our candidates’ ability to raise funds. … I know they’re good candidates because I’ve talked to them and they’re doing their best.
AND Washington Auditor Last week, Scott accused McConnell of being “responsible” for working against the party in 2022 and losing the Senate in 2020.
“This is shocking cowardice and ultimately a betrayal of the conservative cause,” Scott said boldly. “Providing anonymous quotes to help Washington post HE Newspaper “New York Times Writing stories that oppress Republicans is like working with the Democratic National Committee.”
However, the organization rejected Scott’s criticism of McConnell. On Wednesday, establishment media accused Scott of “using the NRSC as a springboard for his future political ambitions”.
“Scott is cutting back on NRSC-funded advertising while pushing his own legislative agenda, which McConnell vehemently opposes,” Punchbowl News reported. “NRSC’s fundraising stalled after a spike early in the cycle, and DSCC now has more than double the cash back as the midterms approach.”
It should be noted that former President Donald Trump appointed Scott to replace McConnell as GOP Senate leader in 2022. Scott reportedly responded by saying he was determined to get the Senate majority back from the Democrats.
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Source: Breitbart
