The Koch brothers are making getting Harry Reid's Nevada Senate seat one of their top priorities this cycle and have already spent at least $6 million just in this state, in the hopes of exacting revenge on the man who has worked so hard to expose them. They're using all their groups—Concerned Veterans for America, Generation Opportunity, LIBRE Initiative, and Freedom Partners—in a combination of ground and field efforts. They’re providing money for ads, and bodies for canvassing.
Their Concerned Veterans astroturf organization has already spent $700,000 on TV and a digital ad campaign for Republican Joe Heck and are pumping more in now, though they aren't disclosing the money behind it beyond saying it's part of "a six-figure buy spread across the three states" (Florida and Pennsylvania are the other two).
Keeping the Senate out of Democrats' hands—even if their nemesis Harry Reid won't be there anymore—is their top priority. The fact that Catherine Cortez Masto is the candidate Harry Reid wants in this seat just makes them that much more committed to defeating her. They want—they need—all their lackeys like Joe Heck in office.
And don't think Joe Heck—who is an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump—wouldn't also be a completely loyal Koch voter in the Senate. After all, that's what they're buying this election.
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