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The party\u2019s main campaign groups have already begun spending in Texas, another state they once downplayed that\u2019s come seriously into play.\nBut those same groups say they don\u2019t have enough cash to protect the core battleground and also make significant investments beyond it \u2014 setting up Democrats for a series of difficult choices in the closing weeks of the midterms.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very clear in the polling: If we get our message out, we\u2019re going to win. We\u2019re also not an expensive state to advertise in,\u201d said Scott Colom, the Mississippi Democratic Senate nominee. \u201cWhen it comes to Mississippi, we\u2019ve been ignored for far too long.\u201d\nSome Democrats see a generational opportunity to win seats in red states, driven by voters\u2019 frustration with the economy that has hit rural and poorer red states particularly hard. And they\u2019re starting to play around the edges.\nAmerican Bridge PAC has pumped $2.1 million into Mississippi, where it is running ads targeting GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. The state\u2019s population is poor and mostly rural \u2014 two groups that have been particularly squeezed by high gas prices. Democrats have long dreamed it could become competitive, and Hyde-Smith didn\u2019t reach 55% of the vote in her two previous Senate wins.\nThe PAC also on Wednesday put $2.5 million into Florida, $630,000 into South Carolina and over $410,000 into Kansas as part of a $22.7 million investment on 6,000 billboards focused on higher costs spanning roughly 80 House and Senate races, the group said.\n\u201cWe are very aware that a durable majority means we are going to have to compete in totally new places, in states where we haven\u2019t competed before,\u201d American Bridge 21st Century President Pat Dennis told POLITICO on Wednesday. \u201cAnd we also know that those changes don\u2019t happen all at once, they\u2019re investments over years.\u201d\nBut Democrats, despite polling well, are being massively outspent on the airwaves across the core battleground states. They\u2019re already heavily investing in a swath of states President Donald Trump won in 2024 by double-digit margins \u2014 Alaska, Iowa, and Ohio and, most recently, Texas. And they\u2019re wary of spending big in states where major money chasing good polls have yielded very little in past elections.\n\u201cAcross the board, this is belt-tightening time and campaigns and committees need to make sure the money is being spent on seats to secure a majority,\u201d said one senior Democratic operative working on Senate races, granted anonymity to candidly discuss spending strategy. \u201cThe stark reality is there aren\u2019t the funds at the national level to invest in the next ring of states without putting the genuine tossups at risk.\u201d\nThat comes after a new group affiliated with former Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 super PAC dropped nearly $700,000 into Kansas last week to benefit Democrat Adam Hamilton, on top of nearly $5 million in recent spending from an outside group backed by a local attorney.\nA group that backs Democratic doctors and scientists running for office, 314 Action, has bundled roughly $3.6 million for Annie Andrews in South Carolina. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recently transferred $250,000 toward Angie Nixon in Florida, an expensive former swing state.\nThose aren\u2019t huge investments; Democrats have spent or reserved over $100 million in Ohio alone since Labor Day, according to data from tracking firm AdImpact.\nBut Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has included both Kansas and Mississippi in his pitches to donors and hosted a fundraiser for Colom over the summer. He told reporters last week \u201cwe\u2019re going to do everything we can in as many states as we can.\u201d Senate Majority PAC recently told POLITICO it is \u201cactively thinking\u201d about whether to wade into Kansas \u2014 even as the group, which posted a record third-quarter fundraising haul, warned last week in a memo to donors that \u201cthe resources we have now\u201d are not enough to \u201cexpand into new opportunities.\u201d\nRepublicans are legitimately concerned about Kansas, where high diesel and fertilizer prices driven by the war with Iran are hitting farmers and ranchers hard \u2014 outside groups have poured in more than $10 million into the state in recent days. Public and private polls show Hamilton tied or in the lead.\nDanedri Herbert, the Kansas GOP chair, said she was confident Republican Sen. Roger Marshall will win reelection but is relieved national groups are now paying attention.\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to leave it to chance,\u201d Herbert said. \u201cWe\u2019re glad they\u2019re here and taking it seriously.\u201d\nIn a statement, Hamilton spokesperson Tyson Brody said Washington Republicans are \u201cpanicking\u201d and \u201csending in millions to try to distract from Marshall\u2019s record.\u201d\nSome Democrats see good reason to spend more in some of the smaller long-shot states. Their money can go a lot further in Kansas, South Carolina and Mississippi \u2014 the same rationale they had when they invested in Alaska early this cycle but held off in Texas.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a huge amount of money in these states. A little money goes a long way,\u201d said Jaime Harrison, former Democratic National Committee chair and former Senate candidate in South Carolina.\nDemocrats have been burned before by chasing these states. When Harrison ran for Senate in 2020, he raised $109 million. Polls showed a tight race before Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) beat him by 10 points.\nSen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) told POLITICO late last month that \u201cwe should be adding Mississippi onto that roster.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s also an issue of optimizing of money, right? Mississippi is a smaller market. So you might be able to invest and actually have great turnout,\u201d Gallego said.\nGallego also said he hopes to campaign with Nixon in Florida, who\u2019s a \u201creally good candidate\u201d facing a \u201cvery expensive\u201d media market.\nBut most Democrats aren\u2019t opening their wallets widely for Nixon, who joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June before her upset against well-funded establishment pick Alex Vindman in the primary. Nixon\u2019s campaign has spent $64,000 on streaming ads so far, while Vindman spent $2 million on TV ads in the primary.\nNixon met with Schumer last week and \u201chad a really great conversation,\u201d said her campaign manager, Eunic Epstein-Ortiz. She also said DSCC leadership has been \u201cvery supportive of the race.\u201d Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who chairs the campaign arm, held a virtual fundraiser for Nixon.\nIn South Carolina, Andrews has posted healthy fundraising over a year into her campaign, which has helped her to blanket local broadcasts with ads for months against recently appointed GOP Sen. Darline Graham. Polls have found a close race.\nRepublicans are bearing down as well, putting $5 million for Graham in recent days.\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for Andrews said the campaign has \u201cthe resources we need to share our message about lowering costs.\u201d\nKimberly Leonard and Lauren Fedor contributed to this report.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n \n \n Quality, in-depth journalism is essential to a healthy community. The Dispatch brings you the most complete reporting and insightful commentary in the Golden Triangle, but we need your help to continue our efforts. In the past week, our reporters have posted 33 articles to cdispatch.com. 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