The super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell raised $49.6 million during the first 14 days of October, as wealthy Republican donors invested heavily down the stretch to save the GOP’s three-seat majority.
The Senate Leadership Fund told the Washington Examiner Thursday that its pre-general election filing with the Federal Election Commission would show cash on hand of $69.2 million. The group entered October with $113.8 million in the bank and spent $94.2 million to defend more than one dozen Republican-held seats that Democrats are threatening.
Driven by voter dissatisfaction with President Trump and an energized liberal base, incumbent Republicans are on their heels in blue states such as Colorado and Maine, purple states, including Arizona and North Carolina, and in Iowa, a swing state. Additionally, Republicans are threatened in traditionally red states such as Alaska, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, and South Carolina. The GOP is on offense in just two states: Alabama and Michigan.
As Trump’s prospects have become less certain, Republican donors have come to the rescue with large donations to the Senate Leadership Fund to protect what would be the party’s only base of power from which to fight back against House Democrats and a Democratic White House, should Joe Biden win.
