The Senate Republicans’ main campaign organization is set to invest $1 million in Mississippi, an unexpected move given the state’s deep Republican roots, as the Senate race tightens, sources familiar with the situation told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Senate Leadership Fund has initiated a plan for a multi-million dollar advertisement campaign to back Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who currently leads Democratic nominee Scott Colom by a narrow margin, as first reported by Semafor. This decision follows a similar move by Senate Democrats, who are planning to spend $1.2 million on ads to promote Colom.
NEW — Senate Leadership Fund plans to spend more than $1 million in Mississippi’s Senate race to defend Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith against Democrat Scott Colom, per Semafor. The buy follows Senate Majority PAC’s $1.2 million ad campaign.
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According to an August Data for Progress survey, Hyde-Smith leads by six points, while an Impact Research survey from April indicated her lead was three points, as noted by The New York Times.
Interestingly, Wedgewood Polls acknowledged that it had fabricated a poll claiming Hyde-Smith was ahead by four points, calling it part of an “experimental project” aimed at demonstrating how easily fabricated polling could mislead the public.
On a different note, former Vice President Kamala Harris was in Mississippi on Thursday supporting Colom. She was joined by Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Representative Bennie Thompson from Mississippi, and former President Barack Obama, who endorsed Colom through a commercial.
It’s worth mentioning that President Donald Trump won Mississippi with a considerable 24-point advantage over Harris. The last Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi, John Stennis, retired in 1989, so the state’s political landscape has tilted heavily Republican for decades.
Hyde-Smith previously won her 2020 election by a margin of 54.1% to 44.1%.
Republican PACs have been investing substantial amounts to protect Republican-held seats, including in Texas and Kansas. They’ve spent over $300 million for Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, $14 million for support of Republican Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas, and $5 million for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.
Interestingly, these PACs have reduced their efforts in North Carolina and Georgia, two critical battleground states, while Democrats have similarly curtailed their ad budgets in those areas, as polling shows Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff and former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper with comfortable leads.
