Millions pour into Wisconsin’s US Senate race in final days
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MADISON, Wis. — Millions of dollars poured into Wisconsin starting Monday for the final week of the election, as jittery Democrats tried to push Russ Feingold over the finish line in the U.S. Senate race against Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the key races nationwide that could determine whether Republicans retain majority control.
The GOP’s Senate Leadership Fund announced Monday it was putting $2 million in the Wisconsin Senate race to counter an equal amount a Democratic PAC started spending on the race in a late push to help Feingold.
Johnson has long been seen as one of the most vulnerable GOP Senate incumbents this election cycle, but his campaign has argued the race is tightening and Democrats were spending money late because they were getting nervous.
A super PAC backing Johnson also released a six-figure statewide ad arguing that Johnson should be elected to serve as a stop against Democrat Hillary Clinton as president. The ad by the Let America Work PAC was one of the more colorful of the cycle, featuring a cow and a steaming pile of manure to make its own. One Milwaukee television station refused to air the spot, saying it didn’t meet its standards.
