House Dems reserve $44M in fall airtime
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is reserving nearly $44 million in fall airtime across 36 districts in preparation for the uphill battle they’re facing this fall.
{mosads}According to a DCCC aide, it’s the largest reservation ever placed by the committee, and with it they’re targeting 17 pickup opportunities and defending 19 incumbents.
The reservations could shift with the House landscape, as more seats come into play or get taken off the map. But the early reservations allow the committee to save as much as 35 percent on airtime.
The Democratic committee has consistently outraised its GOP counterpart this cycle, boasting $43.3 million in the bank at the end of April, $11 million more than the National Republican Congressional Committee.
And it looks like they plan to use every penny as they battle a difficult climate in their pursuit of the 17 seats they’ll need to take back the majority this fall.
Some of the committee’s largest buys are geared toward protecting incumbents, like the overall $1.4 million the committee’s spending in the expensive Boston-Manchester market to defend Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), starting in early October, or the six-week, $2.2 million buy in the Phoenix media market aimed at supporting Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.).
But they’re also spending millions on offensive opportunities, like the race for retiring Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Va.) seat, where the committee has reserved $2.8 million in the Washington, D.C., from Oct. 21 through the election.
The choice to telegraph their fall buys allows outside groups barred from coordinating with them to take a peek at the DCCC’s strategy and plan accordingly — but it also gives Republicans the opportunity to counter-strategize.
The full list of buys follows:
AR-02 (Open/Griffin)
10/21-11/4: $625K for Little Rock Broadcast
AZ-01 (Kirkpatrick)
9/2-10/6: $2.2M for Phoenix Broadcast and Cable
AZ-02 (Barber)
10/14–11/4: $700K for Tucson Broadcast and Cable
AZ-09 (Sinema)
10/21–11/4: $1.3M for Phoenix Broadcast and Cable
CA-10 (Denham)
10/21–11/4: $1.1M for Sacramento Broadcast
CA-07 (Bera)
9/9–10/20: $500K for Sacramento Cable
10/21–11/4: $1.2M for Sacramento Broadcast and Cable
CA-21 (Valadao)
9/9–9/22: $200K for Bakersfield Broadcast
9/2–9/22: $150K for Bakersfield Spanish Language Broadcast and Cable
9/9–9/22: $400K for Fresno Broadcast
9/2–9/22: $250K for Fresno Spanish Language Broadcast and Cable
CA-26 (Brownley)
9/23–11/4: $950K for Los Angeles Cable
CA-31 (Open/Miller)
9/23–11/4: $625K for Los Angeles Cable
CA-52 (Peters)
9/19–10/13: $1.4M for San Diego Broadcast and Cable
CO-06 (Coffman)
10/21–11/4: $1.4M for Denver Broadcast
CT-05 (Esty)
10/24–11/4: $670K for Hartford Broadcast and Cable
9/23–11/4: $90K for New York City Cable
FL-02 (Southerland)
9/30–10/20: $400K for Tallahassee Broadcast and Cable
9/30–10/20: $385K for Panama City Broadcast and Cable
FL- 26 (Garcia)
10/21–11/4: $970K for Miami Spanish Language Broadcast and Cable
GA-12 (Barrow)
9/2–10/6: $490K for Augusta Broadcast and Cable
9/9–10/6: $670K for Savannah Broadcast
IA-03 (Open/Latham)
9/5–10/20: $1.3M for Des Moines Broadcast
IA-04 (King)
10/21–11/4: $440K for Des Moines Broadcast
10/21–11/4: $230k for Sioux City Broadcast
IL-10 (Schneider)
10/21–10/27: $800K for Chicago Broadcast and Cable
IL-12 (Enyart)
9/12–9/29: $940K for St. Louis Broadcast
10/21–11/4: $940K for St. Louis Broadcast
IL-13 (Davis)
10/21–11/4: $940K for St. Louis Broadcast
9/30–10/20: $670K for Champaign Broadcast and Cable
MA-06 (Tierney)
10/28–11/4: $965K for Boston-Manchester Broadcast
10/7–11/4: $460K for Boston-Manchester Cable
MI-01 (Benishek)
9/2–9/22: $450K for Traverse City Broadcast
10/14–11/4: $490K for Traverse City Broadcast
MI-07 (Walberg)/ MI-08 (Open/Rogers)
10/21–11/4: $290K for Lansing Broadcast
MI-07 (Walberg)/ MI-08 (Open/Rogers)/ MI-11 (Bentivolio)
10/21–11/4: $850K for Detroit Broadcast
MN-07 (Peterson)
10/14–11/4: $1.5M for Minneapolis-St. Paul Broadcast and Cable
MN-08 (Nolan)
10/7–10/20: $1.1M for Minneapolis-St. Paul Broadcast and Cable
NH-01 (Shea Porter)/ NH-02 (Kuster)
10/7–10/20: $1.7M for Boston-Manchester Broadcast
10/7–10/20: $650K for Manchester WMUR Broadcast
10/7–10/20: $200K for Boston-Manchester Cable
NJ-03 (Open/Runyan)
8/12–11/4: $650K for Philadelphia Cable
8/12–11/4: $640K for New York City Cable
NY-01 (Bishop)
9/9–10/20: $1.4M for New York City Cable
NY-11 (Grimm)
8/12–10/13: $950K for New York Cable
NY-21 (Open/Owens)
10/21–11/4: $480K for Albany Broadcast and Cable
10/21–11/4: $140K for Watertown Broadcast
10/21–11/4: $200K for Burlington-Plattsburgh Broadcast
NY-23 (Reed)
10/21–11/4: $300K for Buffalo Broadcast
10/21–11/4: $165K for Elmira Broadcast and Cable
PA-06 (Open/Gerlach) / PA-08 (Fitzpatrick)
10/21–11/4: $1.9M for Philadelphia Broadcast
TX-23 (Gallego)
9/23–10/13: $940K for San Antonio Broadcast
VA-10 (Open/Wolf)
10/21–11/4: $2.8M for Washington DC Broadcast and Cable
WV-03 (Rahall)
9/2–9/22: $300K for Bluefield-Beckley Broadcast
10/21-11/4: $200K for Bluefield-Beckley Broadcast
9/2–9/22: $435K for Charleston-Huntington Broadcast
10/21–11/4: $290K for Charleston-Huntington Broadcast
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