democrats are outspending republicans by $7.5 million in the race to knock off gop sen. pat toomey. | getty by burgess everett 10/18/16 03:06 pm edt senate republicans' campaign arm raised $15 million in september and took out an additional $15.5 million line-of-credit, part of an all-out effort to keep the senate <u+2014> and stave off democrats who are outspending them in key races. that late $30 million infusion could go a long way: the senate gop's campaign arm ended september with $12.3 million on-hand. without the loan, the party would be out of cash. story continued below "the only reason senate republicans are alive right now is because we have quality candidates who have run great campaigns. the only way we can survive is by trying to close the massive spending gaps in the next few weeks," said an aide to the national republican senatorial committee. the haul also suggests that donors are beginning to gravitate toward the battle for the senate as donald trump<u+2019>s prospects for becoming president continue to sag. an internal gop document obtained by politico casts the spending disparity in stark terms. florida is the only ultra-competitive senate race where republicans are outspending democrats over the next three weeks. according to spending reservations listed on the documents, democrats are set to outspend republicans in pennsylvania, new hampshire, north carolina, indiana, nevada and missouri over the final stretch. in some states the deficits are small: republicans are being outspent by less than $1 million in missouri. in others, it's a yawning chasm: democrats are outspending republicans by $7.5 million in the race to knock off gop sen. pat toomey and $4.5 million in their effort to defeat gop sen. kelly ayotte of new hampshire. republicans have been aided somewhat by the emergence of the deep-pocketed conservative senate leadership fund, which has emerged as foil to the democratic group, senate majority pac. the september fundraising figure is by far the best number of the cycle for the nrsc which has been routinely outraised by the democratic senatorial campaign committee, which has hauled in $40 million through the end of august. the dscc<u+2019>s fundraising numbers for september were not immediately available. it is common practice to take out a loan during a close election where the majority is at stake. the dscc took out $15 million over the last weeks of the 2014 election, ending the cycle $20 million in debt. senate republicans now list $15,5 million in debt as of october. the nrsc loan was first reported by national journal. by michael grunwald by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz
nrsc grabs $30 million in race for senate - politico
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