Senate Republicans Move Cash From Purple North Carolina To Red Kansas As Battle For Majority Shifts

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The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership, is pulling ad money out of North Carolina and rushing nearly $8.2 million into Kansas, according to four people familiar with the internal strategy and AdImpact tracking data. The shift suggests waning confidence that Michael Whatley, Trump's pick for the North Carolina Senate seat, can beat Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper, even as Trump himself told reporters he is “worried” about Whatley's chances.

In Kansas, incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall faces Democrat Adam Hamilton, a megachurch pastor, in a state Trump carried by nearly 16 points two years ago. Marshall and allied groups have reserved roughly $11 million combined compared to about $1.1 million for Hamilton's side, yet two former Republican Kansas governors have already crossed over to endorse the Democrat.

NRSC chair Sen. Tim Scott conceded Kansas is “very competitive” and predicted a win “closer than I want it to be,” while Marshall's campaign did not respond to the new spending on his behalf. Kansas Democratic Party chair Jeanna Repass pointed to fuel costs tied to the Iran war as a factor souring even Republican farmers on the incumbent.

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When the party in charge starts moving furniture out of a state the president himself picked a candidate for, that tells you more than any poll crosstab. A sixteen-point cushion from two years ago is supposed to be the easy seat, the one nobody has to think about twice. If Kansas needs eight million dollars of grown-up supervision this late in the game, North Carolina was never the problem, it was just the first fire they noticed.

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