With just five weeks until voters head to the polls on Election Day, conservative political action committees dumped $30 million into the close Senate race in the battleground state of Michigan.
Republican candidate Mike Rogers is barely trailing Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in the race for Michigan’s open Senate seat, according to most polls. In an effort to boost Rogers’ campaign, the Great Lakes Conservative Fund, a super PAC, has spent $8 million on statewide ads, Axios reported earlier this week.
The Great Lakes Conservative Fund’s ad buy comes shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported that Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is spending $22.5 million in Michigan, which marked the first time that the Senate Leadership Fund spent money on the Michigan race. The Democratic Senate campaign arm, meanwhile, has spent $22 million in Michigan this year, according to…