{"id":1691419,"date":"2022-10-15T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1691419"},"modified":"2022-10-15T20:51:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:51:20","slug":"mcconnell-aligned-pac-raises-111-million-in-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-aligned-pac-raises-111-million-in-third-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell-Aligned PAC Raises $111 Million in Third Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-aligned-pac-raises-111-million-in-third-quarter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1691419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Senate <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans&#8217;<\/a> top super PAC raised more than $1 million on average each day during the third quarter of 2022, pulling in $111 million between July and September. <\/p>\n<p>The Senate Leadership Fund, which is closely associated with Senate Minority Leader <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-KY), nearly doubled its total haul for this midterm cycle and has raised $221.4 million total to date, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/13\/us\/politics\/senate-republicans-fundraising.html?smid=tw-share\">according<\/a> to the New York Times. Much of the money will likely target battleground Senate races in the final weeks before the midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/midterms-2022-updates-live-coverage-november-polls\">MIDTERMS 2022: LIVE UPDATES FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AHEAD OF CRUCIAL ELECTION<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur donors are fired up about slamming the brakes on Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous left-wing agenda,\u201d SLF President Steven Law said in a statement. \u201cWe are hammering Democrats on inflation, gas prices, taxes and crime.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The SLF has already spent $148 million on races in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Ohio. Contributors to the group&#8217;s earnings include $20 million from the associated nonprofit group One Nation. <\/p>\n<p>The SLF is reportedly in talks with billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel about <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/thiel-to-support-masters-if-gop-matches\">matching<\/a> contributions to help Blake Masters in Arizona. According to Axios, the PAC was considering the idea but said it hadn&#8217;t fundraised to match a possible donation from Thiel. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Republicans are spending heavily as key <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> races are within the margin of error in polling. A cash influx from the Senate PAC could give a necessary boost in advertising as voters decide which candidates to support. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans need a net gain of just one Senate seat to take the majority in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans&#8217; top super PAC raised more than $1 million on average each day during the third quarter of 2022, pulling in $111 million between July and September. The Senate Leadership Fund, which is closely associated with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), nearly doubled its total haul for this midterm cycle and has raised &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}