Campaigns, outside groups spend more than $312M on ads in Ga. runoffs
As Georgia takes center stage at the end of the 2020 election cycle, campaigns and outside groups are slated to spend more than $312 million on ads in the two Senate runoffs that will decide the makeup of the upper chamber in the next Congress.
Across the two contests, Republicans are vastly outspending Democrats on television, radio and digital ads.
From Nov. 4 through Jan. 5, Republican incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler's campaigns and conservative groups supporting them have run or reserved $178 million worth of ads while Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Raphael's campaigns and liberal groups supporting them have run or booked $134 million worth of ads, according to an analysis by AdImpact, which tracks ad purchase data.
More than $144 million has flowed into the rivalry between Perdue and Ossoff, including $82 million from Republicans and $62 million from Democrats. And in the contest between Loeffler and Warnock, $169 million has come in, including $97 million from Republicans and $72 million from Democrats.
With a little more than a month to go until the January election day, outside groups have already aired more than $69 million out of the upward of $300 million placements, according to an analysis of campaign disclosure data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
Among the top spenders from the Republican side are GOP-leadership-linked super PAC Senate Leadership Fund and Karl Rove's super PAC American Crossroads, which together account for 45% of all outside spending in the Georgia runoffs.
-ABC News' Soorin Kim