The anti-abortion group had already said it plans to spend $52 million on the 2020 elections. The group would not specify spending plans beyond that, nor would it divulge how much it spent on Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Anthony List launched a six-figure digital ad buy featuring a video about Barrett on Saturday as part of an overall seven-figure investment to support her nomination. Mattox said they expect to exceed that amount with Barrett. 18.įor Kavanaugh’s confirmation, the group drove 200,000 letters and calls to senators.
In 2018, it launched a seven-figure effort for Kavanaugh’s confirmation.Ĭasey Mattox, Americans for Prosperity vice president for legal and judicial strategy, said the organization has already led more than 100,000 letters and calls to senators since Saturday, the day President Trump announced Barrett as his nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. The group would not specify how much it plans to spend on Barrett’s confirmation battle, only saying it would be in the seven figures. The spots are running in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. The group spent $10 million to back Justice Neil Gorsuch, who was confirmed 54-45 in 2017, and $7 million to block former President Obama’s final Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.Īmericans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaire mega-donor Charles Koch, recently launched ads to urge senators to confirm Barrett. The Judiciary Crisis Network is emerging as one of the biggest spenders.
The progressive group Demand Justice, however, is doubling its $5 million ad buys from the last fight, pledging to spend $10 million this time around. The conservative Judicial Crisis Network on Tuesday kicked off a $3 million ad buy in battleground states, part of a $10 million campaign in support of her nomination, the same amount it spent in 2018.
#BREAKING DOWN THE SOUTH CAROLINA AD WARS FULL#
The ad wars over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination are in full swing, with groups matching or exceeding the amount they spent two years ago in the confirmation fight over Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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