A $2.3 million series of TV ads in June and July blanked Nevada, praising Republican Senate nominee Rep. Joe Heck for his work on creating high-tech jobs and encouraging employment for veterans. In New Hampshire, a $4.6 million ad campaign lauded Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s work fighting heroin addiction and slammed her Democratic opponent for her handling of the opioid crisis. A $2.7 million ad campaign in Pennsylvania praised Republican Sen. Pat Toomey for his efforts to protect kids and in Ohio, $4.8 million in ads have encouraged voters to call Republican Sen. Rob Portman to tell him to “keep fighting to repeal Obamacare.”
The ads, which did not explicitly urge viewers to vote for those candidates but were clearly designed to boost their candidacies, were paid for by a tax-exempt dark-money organization called One Nation....
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