Spending for Lee-McMullin Senate race totals $35 million and counting, both from campaigns and PACs
Lee, the Republican who won his third term in the Senate last week, spent $9.7 million through mid-October. McMullin, who was not affiliated with a party, spent $5.8 million.Outside groups — political action committees and so-called “super PACs” — spent $19.2 million. The majority of that also favored Lee.
“These people will have unusual access to the successful candidate,” Magleby said, “And the successful candidate will remember that when they're in the next tight race.” The biggest outside spender was a Washington-based super PAC called Club For Growth Action, which supports conservatives. It spent $5.4 million on ads like the one in which McMullin appeared to call Republicans “racists” and “bigots.”
McMullin got PAC money, too. Two groups, Put Utah First PAC and Crypto Freedom PAC, combined to spend $8.7 million, mostly attacking Lee.
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