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Democratic senators in battleground states are raking in donations from out-of-state donors, amassing a hefty cash advantage over potential GOP challengers who haven’t launched Senate bids yet.
Four of the most competitive 2022 Senate races are in states held by Democrats: Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Nevada. Each of the incumbents in those states received more than three-quarters of their campaign cash from out-of-state donors in the first three months of 2021.
The influx of national donations points to another historically expensive election. The 2018 midterms and 2020 election each smashed fundraising and spending records, driven by online donors bankrolling faraway congressional contests. Nine of the 10 most expensive Senate races took place in 2020, led by the half-billion-dollar special election in Georgia. Democrats dominated fundraising in those contests. The 2022 cycle is off to a hot start, home to four of
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Jim Lamon, the chairperson of a solar power company and a supporter of former President Donald Trump, has launched a U.S. Senate campaign, hoping to oust incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly.
Lamon, 65, a Paradise Valley resident who grew up on a farm in Alabama before serving as an engineer airborne officer for the U.S. Army, is the first Republican to jump into a race that could be central to the party’s chances of retaking the Senate majority in 2022. He is the founder and chairman of the board of Scottsdale-based Depcom Power, a solar engineering and construction company that employs 1,600 across the nation.
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel will reportedly back Republican Blake Masters’ challenge of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in the Arizona Senate race.
Masters, who is president of Thiel’s foundation and chief operating officer of his company, will receive a portion of Thiel’s ten million dollar Saving Arizona PAC to win back the Arizona Senate seat from Kelly, who has reportedly raised $4.4 million, according to
Masters graduated from Stanford and is an attorney. In January 2020, he nearly decided to primary then-Sen. Martha McSally but apparently chose to wait for a better opportunity.
Other Arizona Senate candidates who may vie for the seat include state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Jim Lamon, and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). “The anti-tax Club for Growth has signaled it would likely back Biggs, the chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, should he enter the contest,”