The Koch network will spend $30 million on television and digital advertising in key Senate races nationwide, the Washington Examiner has confirmed.
A spokesman for Freedom Partners, a right-leaning organization within the Koch’s network, said the ad buy will cover August and September.
The Koch network’s decision to invest in Senate races in Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and potentially Florida was first reported by Buzzfeed and appears to contradict the notion that the Koch brothers would become less involved in national politics in 2016.
On the contrary, the Koch’s network has reportedly reached twice as many voter contacts already as they did during the last election cycle and have approximately 1,200 staffers in 38 states.
The network has pulled back its presence from this summer’s GOP convention, as the Washington Examiner previously reported, as part of its apparent effort to become less involved in presidential politics amid the rise of Donald Trump. Charles Koch, one half of the GOP mega-donor duo, told ABC that it’s “possible” Hillary Clinton would make a better president than the GOP nominee.
While the Koch brothers appear to have relinquished their fight for the White House, they do not seem to have ceded their turf in the Senate to their opponents just yet.
