At least $100 million more in outside spending will flow into Georgia Senate runoff ahead of Dec. 6, the executive director of the nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets predicted.
The congressional race that saw the highest spending by its general election candidates, combined with spending by outside groups, was the Pennsylvania Senate contest, where Democratic nominee John Fetterman emerged victorious early Wednesday morning.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is dropping $7 million on field operations in Georgia and the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Tuesday formed a joint fundraising committee with Walker’s campaign and the Georgia Republican Party. Runner-up Pennsylvania Pennsylvania is expected to be the runner-up to Georgia in the money race, having to date seen by far the most outside spending this cycle, in part due to the competitive primaries it held in May.
“Both Democrats and Republicans saw the Pennsylvania Senate race as one of the top battleground states and both sides invested massive resources in trying to get their preferred candidate over the finish line,” said Michael Beckel, research director at Issue One, a nonpartisan political reform organization.
“For every dollar that a candidate is able to self-finance, that’s money that could get steered into other campaigns, other races across the country,” he said.
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