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Why are so many Senate battlegrounds running on out-of-state money?

Why are so many Senate battlegrounds running on out-of-state money?
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Campaign fundraising in the 2026 Senate battlegrounds has become overwhelmingly nationalized, leaving most high-stakes candidates far more reliant on out-of-state donors than the voters they hope to represent. Continuing a decades-long retreat from locally sourced campaign money, an OpenSecrets a...

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