A quartet of new nonprofit groups has already spent millions of dollars hammering four of the most vulnerable Republican senators on the ballot next year — threatening the GOP's slim three-seat majority
Democrats spent years sounding the alarm on “dark money” as groups pummeled their senators. Now, the left is the side delivering the early blow.
Leaders at the National Republican Senatorial Committee have also sounded the alarm. In an October memo, Sen. Todd Young, the committee’s chairman, and Kevin McLaughlin, its executive director, wrote that there had been a “flurry of outside spending” in those four races. Each of the new nonprofits is incorporated in the state they are running ads in and run by local Democratic operatives, and none of the groups have any clear ties to national Democratic groups. But in 2017 and 2018, Senate Majority PAC funded pop-up super PACs in several states with critical Senate elections, and the groups’ ties to national Democrats and donors weren’t revealed until after the elections. A spokesperson for Senate Majority PAC declined to comment.
In Iowa, Democratic-aligned groups have tripled Republican groups on the airwaves, spending more than $1.8 million on early ads attacking Ernst. Most of it has come from Iowa Forward, a nonprofit that does not reveal its donors but has spent $1.4 million so far this election, according to Advertising Analytics. Their ads have focused on health care, including one where a veteran says he respects Ernst’s military service, but is “disappointed in what she’s done since she went to Washington.
But Democratic outside groups have nearly doubled GOP outside spending so far. Maine Momentum, a local nonprofit staffed with veteran Democratic operatives — including a former staffer for Gideon —has spent nearly $1 million, and Need to Impeach and Demand Justice, a Democratic group that focuses on the judiciary, have also spent six figures this year.
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