Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cracked a joke during a press conference Tuesday when a reporter asked him if there was any fraud in the election that he won last week.
A reporter asked, “Was there any fraud in your Senate race or any Senate race that you know of?
“I don’t know,” McConnell responded, adding, “At the risk of bragging, it wasn’t very close.”
The room erupted in laughter.
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The Center for Responsive Politics highlighted how Democratic Senate candidates raised staggering amounts of cash, only to lose to Republicans in key races across the country:
Democrats hoped a rising tide could lift their challengers in red states. Polls showed close races, even in states like South Carolina and Kansas, that forced GOP groups to invest in deep-red areas. Such results never emerged, and Democratic donors who gave record-breaking amounts of money to those Senate candidates were left empty-handed.
In South Carolina, Democrat Jaime Harrison raised nearly $108 million, an all-time record, but is losing by 14 points to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) with 91 percent of the vote reported. Harrison outraised Graham by $35 million through mid-October, a fact that caused Graham to plead for donations on-air, and prompted super PACs to spend $32 million backing him. When all was said and done, the race wasn’t particularly close.
In Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cruised to a comfortable victory, unfazed by the $88 million raised by his Democratic opponent, Amy McGrath. That’s the second most money any Senate candidate has raised in a single cycle, behind Harrison. But McConnell won easily, collecting over 58 percent of the vote with most ballots counted.
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