House Republicans Dropping Big Money To Shore Up Seats Once Viewed As Safe
The big-spending Republican groups focused on keeping the House are moving large sums into some unexpected districts in an effort to shore up seats and incumbents that looked safe for their party until just a few weeks ago.
The National Republican Congressional Committee made a last-minute $800,000 buy to back up Rep. Jaime Hererra Beutler (R-WA) in a GOP-leaning seat on Thursday, while the Congressional Leadership Fund, the GOP’s main House super PAC, launched $500,000 worth of ads to try to save an open seat that runs from Tampa to Orlando, according to sources tracking the buys.
Strategists on both sides had viewed both seats as leaning towards the GOP heading into October, but Democrats have grown especially bullish about the open Florida seat, where public and private polling have recently found a tied race. Hererra Beutler has looked a bit safer, but the GOP wouldn’t be dropping badly needed resources on her behalf if the race looked like a lock.
The new ad salvos with less than two weeks until election day are the latest moves by the pair of GOP groups to shore up seats they hadn’t been worried about heading into the campaign’s home stretch — and a sign that the combination of a big Democratic candidate money advantage and high levels of Democratic enthusiasm is leaving the GOP scrambling to plug holes in the congressional map in their uphill battle to hold the House.
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make sure they have too many races to finance well. We can't win if we don't run, and over the last few cycles, Dems have ceded too m any seats to Repubs unopposed.
