Spending on Pennsylvania Senate bolstered in final days
HARRISBURG (AP) – Spending is growing by leaps in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and could push past $13 million. That’s among this year’s most expensive Senate races.
A super PAC that supports Joe Sestak and a national party committee that backs Katie McGinty are each putting in hundreds of thousands of dollars more. The groups made the disclosures Wednesday to the Federal Election Commission. The primary election is Tuesday in the four-way race.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s total is now nearly $2 million to help McGinty. The super PAC named Accountable Leadership’s total is now more than $1 million to aid Sestak.
Sestak is seeking a rematch with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey after losing to him in 2010. The Democratic establishment is pulling for McGinty.