Crossroads launches six-state, $4.7M Senate ad buy

The Republican outside group Crossroads GPS is up with $4.7 million worth of ads in six key Senate races, another big investment from the organization.

The ads attack Democrats in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, Missouri and Montana. The buy brings the group's two-week spending spree to a total of $8.9 million, more than many Senate campaigns will raise and spend on the entire election.

Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) is Crossroads's main target: it's spending $1.55 million against him on two ads criticizing his tenure as governor as well as his support for a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling last summer.

The conservative group is spending $1.33 million hitting Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on the economy, $770,000 to hit Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on deficit spending, $680,000 attacking Rep. Shelley Berkley's (D-Nev.) ethics, $300,000 hitting Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) on regulations and the deficit and $250,000 criticizing Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) on deficit spending.

The group, co-founded by top GOP strategist Karl Rove, does not have to disclose its donors and plans to spend upwards of $200 million, along with its sister organization American Crossroads, on the presidential and Senate elections this cycle.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pushed back with a new web video slamming the group for pushing to "gut Social Security and Medicare," cut taxes for the wealthy and defend "big oil" subsidies.

This post was updated at 2:55 p.m.

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