GOP Puts More Money Into California Senate Race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Republicans have committed another $1 million to help bolster Carly Fiorina's bid to oust Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer from the U.S. Senate.
The announcement Friday by the National Republican Senatorial Committee brings the group's investment in California's Senate race to nearly $3 million, spokeswoman Amber Marchand said.
The committee had previously given $2 million toward a statewide television ad that tries to tap into the anti-incumbency mood among voters by noting Boxer has held federal office for 28 years.
Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, has also benefited this fall from $2 million in ads by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She spent $5.5 million of her own money in the primary.
At a campaign stop in Sacramento, Boxer invoked the "deep, big pocketed interests" supporting her rival.
"In this race we are fighting against some pretty far right-wing forces. We are fighting against some real deep, big-pocketed interests," she told a crowd of Democratic supporters at a private Sacramento residence. "They don't want us back because we're not afraid of them."
The committee that oversees Democratic efforts in this year's Senate races has not said whether it will make a similar investment in the California race.
Democrats have controlled both Senate seats in California since 1992 when Boxer and Sen. Dianne Feinstein were elected to the Senate.
Boxer, who had $11.3 million in the bank heading into the summer, said she wasn't concerned about being outspent.
"I think what we need to do is just get our message out and our vote out and we'll have enough to do that," Boxer told The Associated Press in an interview after the event.
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