Money is flowing to Arizona's Senate race for GOP candidate Blake Masters — despite a polling advantage by Sen. Mark Kelly and a massive disparity in fundraising and spending between the two parties
Despite a massive disparity in fundraising and spending between the two parties — and a continued polling advantage by Democratic Sen.Sentinel Action Fund, a, will spend at least $5 million to boost Masters this fall, said Jessica Anderson, president of Sentinel Action Fund and executive director of Heritage Action, in an exclusive interview. Of that, $3.5 million will be on television ads, coupled with $1.5 million to fund voter outreach.
Public polling continues to show Kelly with a lead over Masters, a former venture capital executive whose campaign is operating on a much tighter budget and has no ads of its own booked from now until Election Day, according to AdImpact.
“Arizona is the center of the fight for America’s soul,” Anderson said. “It is time for every corner of the conservative coalition to deploy every resource to win the Senate and show up to support our conservative candidates like Blake Masters.” Anderson said the super PAC, which launched this spring, had always intended to spend money in Arizona’s Senate race, but they decided to jump in now after what Anderson called the recent “dustup” surrounding GOP funding for the race, cut its Arizona ad buy by $8 million late last month — nearly half of its initial reservation. That raised the question of whether billionaire Peter Thiel, Masters’ friend and longtime employer, would put additional money into the race. Thiel spent roughly $13.
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