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GOP panics as Trump's poorly timed purchases squander $500M war chest: report
What happened
RawStory, citing The Washington Post, reports that Republican groups entered the final midterm stretch with a large financial advantage but could not identify a race in which that advantage had fundamentally changed the contest. Donald Trump had said his super PACs would spend $400 million to $500 million supporting Republican candidates, yet by the Wednesday covered in the report they had reserved more than $194 million in advertising.
The money arrived late. Trump-controlled super PACs reportedly waited until Labor Day to begin major spending, when airtime was scarcer and more…
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