Patrick Svitek

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@CNN politics reporter covering the midterms and beyond. Ex-@WashingtonPost, @TexasTribune & @HoustonChron. DC via San Antonio & Austin. [email protected].

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Lead Left PAC, the group suspected of GOP meddling in Dem primaries, is up to $343K in spending to boost Maureen Galindo in the #TX35 runoff, per a new FEC filing. Here's an ad the group is running online, touting Galindo's call to abolish ICE:

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#NHSEN — John Sununu in a new TV ad: “The way Chris Pappas tells it, I’m President Trump’s long-lost son. I’ve never even met the man."

#SCSEN: Annie Andrews goes direct-to-camera on trans issues

Scoop: Ken Paxton privately complained John Cornyn “wants me to lose,” as their years-long feud boils over in a high-stakes Senate race The latest leak from a Paxton fundraiser last month: #TXSEN

Here's the first TV ad in #SCSEN from New Deal for All, the new pop-up super PAC, targeting Darline Graham:

New NRSC/Susan Collins TV ad: "The Red Sox know how to handle the Yankees, and Susan Collins knows how to handle Yankee superfan Chuck Schumer" #MESEN

#IASEN: Ashley Hinson goes direct-to-camera for response ad on Epstein files "This week, I had to explain to my boys, 'No, mom does not protect pedophiles'"

Ed Markey, facing a primary challenge from Seth Moulton, puts his endorsers front and center in his first TV ad: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley #MASEN

#TXSEN: James Talarico making an explicit "checks and balances" argument in latest TV ad

#KSSEN: Roger Marshall goes negative against Adam Hamilton on TV, calling him a "woke mega-church CEO"

A bit unusual to see Pete Buttigieg as a GOP ad villain: A Trump-tied super PAC has been hitting #NC11's Jamie Ager for "campaigning with radicals like Pete Buttigieg"

Jasmine Crockett makes direct-to-camera appeal for Christian Menefee in latest TV ad in #TX18 runoff from crypto super PAC Protect Progress. Crockett first backed Menefee when he was in a special election last year and has stuck with him in current race against Al Green.

#MESEN: The pro-Susan Collins super PAC Pine Tree Results is up with its first TV ad against newly minted Democratic nominee Troy Jackson

The first TV ad from AIPAC's super PAC in #MISEN is positive for Haley Stevens and features a clip of Obama praising her work on his auto rescue task force:

Ted Cruz stars in late TV ad for Crenshaw primary challenger Steve Toth, two days after endorsing him. This is for a pro-Toth super PAC. #TX02

Hillary Clinton hasn't endorsed in the #MD06 primary, where David Trone is challenging Rep. April McClain Delaney. But Trone is running a TV ad where women read a letter that Clinton recently sent him:

#MTSEN: Independent PAC, which supports Seth Bodnar (I), is on TV attacking Democratic nominee Alani Bankhead now. This group has spent at least $5.8M in the general election, trying to create a path for Bodnar after Bankhead refused to drop out.

Senate Majority PAC releases its first ad in #TXSEN through its new Texas Forever affiliate, though it’s unclear how much they plan to spend

American Democracy Project is the latest pop-up super PAC with curious spending in the #AKSEN primary, boosting a non-Peltola Democrat:

A new AI-filled TV ad from Front Line Action, a Ted Cruz-aligned nonprofit, that goes after James Fishback in #FLGOV and Dan Bilzerian in #FL06: