Big bucks pour into Delaware Senate race
The February special election that will decide which party controls the state Senate has been the most expensive General Assembly race Delaware has ever seen.
More than $550,000 has been spent to deluge residents of Middletown, Glasgow and southern Newark with mailers, phone calls and television and digital ads. A Delaware Senate race usually "costs" each candidate about $50,000 – or $100,000 for a particularly fierce race, political operatives say.
Most of the money is coming from Democrats, who are determined to elect Stephanie Hansen and preserve their 44-year-old majority in the Senate — and with it, one of the few remaining Democrat-controlled state governments in America.
A new political action committee, First State Strong, has dropped more than $380,000 to support Hansen, on top of more than $60,000 her campaign itself has spent. PACs are a way for donors to support candidates beyond the $600 contribution limit to a campaign and follow different disclosure rules than campaigns.
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