Here’s the sweet sauce on the TPGOP dessert, 17 Million that won’t be spent in November:

“$17 million. That’s the latest tally of political spending in Mississippi’s seemingly unending Republican primary — a mind-boggling figure in a state without one media market among the nation’s top 50. Voters will finally be free of the endless parade of robocalls and attack ads on Tuesday, as voters decide the runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel.

“Our friends at opensecrets.org have been keeping an eye on all the last minute checks fueling the campaigns and outside groups; our Real-Time FEC tracker shows these groups have been spending the cash as quickly as they can raise it. Between the June 3 primary to Tuesday’s final showdown, super PACs and dark money outfits have spent an additional $3.2 million on independent expenditures — TV commercials, Internet ads and mailers aimed at swaying voters in the bitter election.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pulling out all the stops for Cochran, spending $700,000 on the runoff election and even recruiting former Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre, a Mississippi native, for a commercial. But no one has outspent the Club for Growth Action Fund. The hardline conservative group has the distinction of being the highest-spending super PAC in the race, doling out $2.4 million so far in support of McDaniel.”

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