A super PAC supporting GOP U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody of Florida has spent nearly $2.7 million on ads targeting her Democratic challenger, state Rep. Angie Nixon.
The spending comes as the Senate race enters its final stretch and polling averages show Moody leading Nixon by nearly 4 percentage points.
The group, Stronger Safer Nation, has raised more than $12 million, with major donations from billionaires Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel LLC, and Paul Elliott Singer, CEO of Elliott Management Corp.
It also received $400,000 from RAI Services Co., an arm of Reynolds American Inc., one of the country’s largest tobacco and nicotine companies, and $100,000 from the United States Sugar Corp.
Super PACs are committees that can raise money without limits but cannot coordinate directly with candidates and their campaigns.
The group’s latest ad says Nixon is anti-police, contrasting that with what it says is Moody’s tough-on-crime record.
“Radical Angie Nixon wants to defund our police and empty our prisons,” the ad says. Moody, it continues, is married to a police officer and “locked up killers and rapists” as Florida’s attorney general.
Stronger Safer Nation still has over $9 million at its disposal; it’s unclear whether it will spend all of this during this election cycle.
Since the primary, both Nixon and Moody have posted ads on their own accounts attacking each other.
But Moody has a lot more money at her disposal. She has raised over $14 million between her campaign and political committees, according to the last campaign finance report made before the primaries. Nixon has yet to raise a million dollars.
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