A Republican Super PAC that spent millions of dollars against Jon Ossoff on the way to him getting 48 percent of the vote in an 18-candidate field last week is preparing to pour another $3.5 million into the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District:
The Congressional Leadership Fund said Wednesday it will pour $2.5 million into TV advertising beginning May 10 to back Handel’s bid for the suburban Atlanta seat and assail Ossoff. The rest is to be spent on targeted mail and digital campaigns and a network of field operatives charged with knocking on 200,000 doors before the June 20 runoff.
The Congressional Leadership Fund previously tried to make Ossoff look too goofy for Congress in an ad featuring him playing Han Solo in a college skit and too dangerous for Congress in an ad attempting to tie him to black bloc anarchists. But despite the millions spent on those ads:
Expect a new round of attacks to hit on the same themes over the next two months. Corry Bliss is the super PAC’s executive director and was Handel’s campaign manager for her 2014 U.S. Senate bid. He said the group’s “work to define Jon Ossoff has only just begun.”
Ossoff will need major resources to keep hitting back hard on the air and running the strongest possible field campaign.
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