“Nonprofits With Secret Donors Spend Millions in Key Senate Races”

Bloomberg BNA:

Nonprofits that keep donors secret but are closely linked to Democratic and Republican Senate leaders have spent more than $10 million on television, radio and mail ads in key races that may determine control of the Senate, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
The spending included nearly $3 million in recent weeks by the Democratic-linked nonprofit Majority Forward for television and radio ads in Senate races in Missouri, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The Republican-linked nonprofit One Nation spent nearly $3.2 million on mailings in the same races, as well as those in Indiana, New Hampshire and North Carolina.
The spending on “express advocacy”—calling for votes for or against candidates—came in addition to the groups’ unreported spending earlier in the campaign of about $25 million for “issue ads,” which referred to Senate candidates but didn’t explicitly call for votes.
The nonprofit groups on both sides have also contributed money from undisclosed sources to the super political action committees linked to the parties, including an $11 million last-minute infusion of funds from One Nation to the GOP super PAC Senate Leadership Fund.
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