GOP Buyer's Blunder Sends Susan Collins ad Money to Wrong Portland
The group spent $20,000 to $25,000 on the ad, but Google data shows it ran in hundreds of ZIP codes across Oregon and Washington.
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‘Hilarious’: Susan Collins allies burn up to $25K attacking her rival in the wrong state
A GOP-affiliated super PAC dropped tens of thousands of dollars on ads attacking Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson, but appeared to have made an “embarrassing” mix-up when picking its audience, The Intercept reported Monday.“The only problem with the ad in question: The group paid for the video ad to show more than 1 million times in the wrong Portland,” The Intercept’s Noah Hurowitz wrote.The Defending Main Street super PAC, which de…
‘It’s pretty hilarious’: Republican super PAC spends thousands on ads … in the WRONG Portland! * WorldNetDaily * by Ron Strom
Whoops. What may have been an honest mistake has turned into a waste of Republican-promoting money, as Defending Main Street, a GOP super PAC, spent thousands of dollars on ads in Portland, Oregon, when the location should have been Portland, Maine. The ads were meant to boost the reelection campaign of Maine U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, who is facing Democrat Troy Jackson in the Nov. 3 general election. The two Portlands, of course, are thousands o…
GOP buyer's blunder sends Susan Collins ad money to wrong Portland
KITTERY, MAINE – AUGUST 14: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks with the news media outside the Kittery Trading Post, the first stop of a weekend re-election campaign bus tour of the state of Maine, on August 14, 2026 in Kittery, Maine. (Photo by CJ Gunther/Getty Images)
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