Top Republicans are withdrawing from the North Carolina Senate race, sending a clear message: What was a top battleground early in the cycle is no longer worth it.
The Senate GOP’s largest super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, is pausing future spending in North Carolina and instead launching a seven-figure ad buy in deep-red Kansas, according to a person familiar with the move. The news was first reported by Semafor.
This dramatic change in strategy – less than four weeks before the midterm elections – comes after the SLF has already spent more than $30 million supporting the GOP candidate. Michael Whatley. This also comes as public poll continued to show Whatley unable to close the gap against the popular former governor. Roy Cooperthe Democratic candidate.
Republicans now deprioritize a state that the President Donald Trump won in three presidential elections and that Democrats have not won in the Senate since 2008.
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