“In the end, money didn’t really matter,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Republicans dumped a tidal wave of cash into major House and Senate contests to push their candidates to victory. In dozens of races, it seemed to make no difference.”
“Across the country, in every state and region, Democrats triumphed in an election that’s been compared to the party’s golden age of the post-Watergate era.”
“It’s easy to say this after the fact. But Democrats privately wondered about some of the GOP’s spending decisions as they watched Republicans drop resources into contests their own data showed weren’t close.”
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