The battle for Congress is shifting deeper into red territory as both parties deem some races essentially over.
The Democratic group Senate Majority PAC is scaling back ads in Georgia and North Carolina as Republican spending there slows, signs both parties see the Democratic candidates — Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia and former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper — as increasingly favored to win.
The GOP Senate Leadership Fund is spending more to assist Sen. Pete Ricketts in Nebraska, after boosting spending in Kansas and South Carolina.
And the Congressional Leadership Fund, a House GOP leadership-aligned PAC, is redirecting resources from candidates in purple districts, like those represented by Reps. Tom Kean of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, toward GOP incumbents in districts more handily won by President Donald Trump in 2024, like Reps. Monica De La Cruz of Texas and Rob Wittman of Virginia.
Republicans still have some bright spots on the map. Democrats pulled back on some ad spending in another red district in Arizona, and Republicans are still spending heavily to try to flip outgoing Rep. Jared Golden’s seat in Maine.
— Burgess Everett and Nicholas Wu