GOP Super PAC Shifts Millions from North Carolina to Kansas Senate Race

Hamilton spokesperson Tyson Brody told CBS News in a statement that Washington is panicking over desperate failing politician Roger Marshall. Senate Republicans’ main super PAC is shifting millions of dollars to defend a Kansas Senate seat while scaling back investments in a GOP-held seat in North Carolina, cbsnews.com reported. The strategic adjustment highlights how the map for control of the upper chamber is shifting in the final weeks before the midterms as Republicans defend traditionally red-leaning territory. While the GOP can afford to lose up to three seats and retain its Senate majority, President Trump’s party faces an increasingly unfavorable political environment. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina warned lawmakers in a closed-door meeting last month that the party faces a fight for its survival with a record number of toss-up races. The campaign apparatus plans to concentrate resources on defending vulnerable incumbents in states such as Maine and Texas, while simultaneously targeting Democratic-held seats in New Hampshire and Michigan. Kansas Senate Race Funding Shift

As of Friday, the Senate Leadership Fund has reserved $9.8 million in advertising for the Kansas contest, according to AdImpact data. That figure trails the $17.5 million the group spent in 2020 when incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall first won the seat. In deep-red Kansas, Marshall is working to block pastor Adam Hamilton from becoming the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate since 1932. Recent polling places the race in a statistical tie as Hamilton campaigns against discontent over energy prices and the Iran war. The influx of super PAC funds will likely flood Kansas airwaves with attack ads targeting the Democratic challenger. An ad released by Marshall’s campaign accused Hamilton of covering up child abuse at the large church where he serves as senior pastor. Hamilton denied the charge in a response ad, stating that the church investigated allegations against a youth retreat volunteer more than twenty years ago, reported the matter to police, and banned the individual from church programs. A Kansas City Star investigation of court records substantiated those claims, and Hamilton denounced the commercial as dirty politics. Tyson Brody, a spokesperson for the Hamilton campaign, criticized the spending as a panic-driven effort to deflect from Marshall’s legislative record. North Carolina Ad Spending Reduction

In contrast to the heavy outlays in Kansas, the Senate Leadership Fund has paused future ad spending in North Carolina, according to sources familiar with the decision. The super PAC has already spent more than $30 million on the North Carolina Senate race this year, based on Federal Election Commission filings. Semafor initially reported the funding reallocation from North Carolina to Kansas. Polling in North Carolina indicates that former two-term Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper holds an edge over the Republican nominee, Michael Whatley, a Trump ally and former Republican National Committee chair. When reporters asked President Trump if he worried about Whatley’s prospects, he acknowledged that he was. President Trump held a rally for Whatley in North Carolina the previous month, praising him as a great leader. Jeff Allen, Cooper’s campaign manager, maintained that North Carolina remains a fifty-fifty state, noting that a Democrat has not won a presidential or Senate race there in nearly twenty years. Meanwhile, Whatley campaign spokesman DJ Griffin expressed confidence that undecided voters who break late will favor the Republican ticket, allowing them to overcome Cooper’s decades-long political career. November Election Countdown

Voters head to the polls in November to decide control of the United States Senate.

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