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● NV-Sen: Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen announced Thursday that she just booked $14 million in ad time from late July through Election Day, a sum her campaign called the largest ad reservation in Nevada history. Rosen's move comes two months after her allies at Senate Majority PAC booked $36 million to defend her.
Though Election Day may be seven months off, campaigns and outside groups have an incentive to make reservations well ahead of time so they can lock in cheaper ad rates before high demand brings prices up. That's especially true in Nevada, a perennial swing state that will once again see massive spending on the presidential election from Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and outside groups on both sides.
But while the White House and Senate campaigns will attract the most attention in the Silver State, they're by no means the only ones competing for advertising time.
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