Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas
Bowers News Media How can you tell that Republicans are scared of losing the Senate? As my colleague Matt Kerbel wrote earlier this week on Wolves And Sheep , the Substack associated with Bowers News Media, just follow the money : Last week, the Senate Leadership Fund , a major Republican super PAC, announced it was spending $342 million on eight Senate races. That’s one-third of a billion dollars—on eight races. (...) New Hampshire, Georgia and Michigan are seats held by Democrats. That’s $106 million for offense. The remaining five states are held by Republicans. That’s $235 million for defense. By a more than 2-1 margin, Republicans are spending their enormous piles of cash to defend Republican-held seats instead trying to flip Democratic-held seats. Further, three of the states where they are spending their money–Alaska, Iowa and Ohio–are states that Donald Trump won by double-digits in November 2024. Now, Republicans have decided to they need to spend hundr...