Republicans plan to invest about $6.5 million more in television advertising to boost Thom Tillis in the heated North Carolina Senate contest.
The new infusion of money, on top of $3 million the National Republican Senatorial Committee planned to spend in North Carolina before Election Day, will pay for ads on cable and network television “in all the major North Carolina markets,” confirmed Ron Bonjean, a consultant to the NRSC independent expenditure committee.
Already, the race between Tillis and Sen. Kay Hagan, the Democratic incumbent, has been one of the most costly this year, due to North Carolina’s expensive media markets and the status of the race as a key Senate battleground.
Recent polling has shown Hagan holding a slight advantage with less than one month until Election Day.
But Republicans have been pushing back aggressively, attacking Hagan for missing an Armed Services Committee hearing for a political fundraiser and trying to steer the conversation away from state issues that have dogged Tillis.
