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Surprise Democratic Donor Blitzes Senate Races in Republican-Leaning States With Ads

Steve Pajcic, a lawyer and philanthropist in Florida, started a group that is airing ads in Kansas and South Carolina. Florida and Mississippi are next.

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The Democratic Senate candidates Adam Hamilton of Kansas, Scott Colom of Mississippi, Annie Andrews of South Carolina and Angie Nixon of Florida.
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Supreme Court Again Sides With Republicans in Political TV Ad Fight

The Trump administration had filed an emergency application asking the justices to intervene in a long-running dispute over political ad rates.

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The order was likely to be only a modest boost for the G.O.P., as the court had made its position clear in two previous rulings in recent months.
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An Ad Targeting Susan Collins’s Opponent, Troy Jackson, Airs in the Wrong Portland

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An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.

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Troy Jackson is trying to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a fifth-term Republican, in Maine.
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Democrats Tie Corruption to High Costs in Final Midterms Push

Party leaders are working to connect Washington profiteering and the influence of billionaires and corporate America to affordability, in what they hope will be a potent closing message.

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“Corruption is why things don’t work for the American people.” Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat running for re-election in Georgia, said in a recent campaign video.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Elon Musk has shown less public interest in elections in recent months, but he has patched up his relationship with President Trump and quietly spent enormous amounts to help Republicans in the midterms.
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Federal Judge Bars Trump Administration From Airing Publicly Funded Ads

A group of liberal organizations sued last week over the ads that praised the administration.

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President Trump had pressed for the publicly funded ads to be run.
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