Fox News reports that two major Republican outside groups, One Nation and the Senate Leadership Fund, are making huge TV reservations to help Georgia Sen. David Perdue fend off Democrat Jon Ossoff.
One Nation has booked $8.65 million in ads that will start Aug. 4, while the SLF reportedly will reserve $13.5 million for commercials that will begin in mid-September. The NRSC also will launch a $2.1 million TV campaign next week, though it’s not clear yet if those ads will go towards helping Perdue or appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who faces several candidates from both parties in the November special all-party primary.
Until this month, we hadn’t seen any major outside spending from either party in the Perdue-Ossoff race. However, while Democrats haven’t won a Senate race in Georgia since 2000, polls have consistently found a close contest here, and the Team Red’s reservations indicate they’re worried about Perdue.
Perdue himself is also going up with his first two TV spots, and he uses one to attack Ossoff. The senator declares, “Contrary to what the radical left is saying, America has been and still is the greatest country in the world.” Perdue goes on to say, “I will not let Jon Ossoff destroy the American dream for our children and our grandchildren,” though he doesn’t actually bother to say why the audience should think the Democratic nominee is dangerous.
Perdue’s other ad positions the incumbent as a supporter of “police reform” who believes that “defunding the police” is not the answer.
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