Ultra Rich Recruits Critical to GOP Plan to Capture the Senate

Senate Republicans estimate they’ve saved at least $200 million by lining up wealthy self-funders as swing-state challengers and getting the party’s biggest name to weigh in at the right time.

Synchronizing endorsements with former President Donald Trump helped short-circuit potential primary fights, so the party was spared “well over a hundred million dollars” in spending that would have been “pissed away on internal warfare,” Jason Thielman, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in an interview Wednesday in the Bloomberg Government office.

Add to that the advantage of having candidates who’ve committed to cumulatively spend between $20 and ...