What it is ain't exactly clear, but it could signal that the main focus of the Republican/ Seditionist Party in the midterms has shifted from taking both the Senate and House to focusing on the more winnable House:
As midterm election campaigns heat up in the Senate’s top battlegrounds, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is canceling millions of dollars of ad spending, sending GOP campaigns and operatives into a panic and upending the committee’s initial spending plan.
The cuts — totaling roughly $13.5 million since Aug. 1 — come as the Republicans’ Senate campaign committee is being forced to “stretch every dollar we can,” said a person familiar with the NRSC’s deliberations. Republican nominees in critical states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina — places the GOP must defend this fall — have failed to raise enough money to get on air themselves, requiring the NRSC to make cuts elsewhere to accommodate.
Since Aug. 1, the NRSC has cut ad buys in the battleground states of Pennsylvania ($7.5 million), Arizona ($3.5 million), Wisconsin ($2.5 million) and Nevada ($1.5 million), according to the ad tracking service AdImpact. Separately, a Democratic source tracking advertising buys estimated roughly $10.5 million in cuts by the NRSC since the first of the month.
“People are asking, ‘What the hell is going on?’” said one Republican strategist working on Senate races. “Why are we cutting in August? I’ve never seen it like this before.” (our emphasis)
While the Sen. Rick "Bat Boy" Scott (Medicare Fraud-FL) -led NRSC could be floundering, it's important to note that other Republican PACs are flush with cash for the fall (including Sen. "Moscow Mitch" McConnell's war chest). Nonetheless, the party's über radicalization (draconian abortion laws, opposition to PACT, reaction to Mar-a-Largo raid, etc.), its predilection for running deeply flawed MAGA nuts for Senate (eg., Oz, Vance, Walker, Masters), and the "Trump is on the ballot" phenomenon has shifted the odds of the Senate staying in Democratic hands, with the very real potential of adding a few seats. The House remains a challenge, with a swing of only 4 seats determining control.
Republican election deniers are running for key positions in battleground states, poised to nullify election results in 2024 should they win. Today's primaries in Alaska and Wyoming should offer further proof to reality- based voters of the Republican/ Seditionist Party's full embrace of the Malignant Loser's cult of personality.
In "normal" times, the party in control of the White House loses seats in Congress. But, as we get closer to November the chances we could be seeing an "asterisk" election seem to be increasing.
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(Image: "Moscow Mitch"McConnell and "Bat Boy" Scott, Republican rainmakers/ CNN)
