AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
Hugo LowellPoliticsSep 18, 2026 11:00 AMAI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate RaceThe reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot.
- ▪Hugo LowellPoliticsSep 18, 2026 11:00 AMAI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate RaceThe reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot.
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Hugo LowellPoliticsSep 18, 2026 11:00 AMAI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate RaceThe reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.Al Drago/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyMajor super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to one million dollars into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking to shape the outcome of a noncompetitive race amid a critical national debate over AI regulation.Rounds has been the beneficiary this cycle of around $600,000 in spending by outside groups, with the vast majority of that figure…
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