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Group spending nearly $4 million on anti-Bayh ads
WASHINGTON — A group with ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is spending nearly $4 million on fall ads to try to prevent Evan Bayh from taking back his old Senate seat.
That’s on top of the $1 million the Senate Leadership Fund has already spent on the general election race, and the roughly $800,000 the group spent to help Rep. Todd Young win the GOP primary.
The Senate Leadership Fund is a super PAC created to help Republicans keep control of the Senate.
The group on Friday placed $960,000 in ads each week for the last three weeks of September and the first week of October.
Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/behind-closed-doors/2016/08/26/group-spending-nearly-1-million-anti-bayh-ads/89407142/
