A contentious primary season has taken a toll on pro-Republican super PACs, which spent heavily on election battles among GOP candidates and are looking to November with less cash on hand than their Democratic counterparts.
The largest pro-Republican super PACs have not only raised less money than Democratic groups but spent a far larger share of it on primary fights, a Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign-finance filings shows. For the current campaign cycle through July 3, pro-Republican super PACs in the study directed more than 70% of their spending toward battles among GOP candidates, while the largest Democratic super PACs put just 9% of their spending into primaries.
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The bottom line: The largest Democratic super PACs are heading into the general-election season with a combined $36 million in the bank as of their latest filings—nearly three times as much as the largest Republican political-action committees.
Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, said the spending disparity was "almost inevitable" given the divisions within the Republican Party. Democratic groups' fundraising success also indicates they are determined to protect vulnerable Senate seats, he said. "If they lose the Senate, it will not be because they have been greatly outspent," he said.
Super PACs can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of or against candidates, but they can't donate directly to candidates. The Journal's analysis covers the 25 highest-spending partisan super PACs active this year, as determined by the Center for Responsive Politics. Seventeen of the groups back Republicans, and eight back Democrats.
The review gives only a partial look at total spending by nonparty and noncandidate groups because it doesn't include nonprofits—many of them heavy spenders on campaign activity—such as the conservative Americans for Prosperity or the liberal Patriot Majority. Those 501(c)(4) groups don't have to disclose all of their spending on politics; AFP alone has said it plans to spend $125 million this cycle.Read the rest of the story HERE. If interested, Opensecrets.org has a list with links to all official Supper PACS HERE.
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1 comment:
Spend the money Republican Pac's, it will come in 10 fold and the bills will be paid. The poles determon what will come. The demacraps have a way of shooting themselves in the foot. Take biden, obomieThing all liers and crooks, will surely go to Hell in Spades, right Bro, Huh, OK?
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