Inside the most expensive races of the costliest election cycle in US history
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- ✓Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday for the most expensive midterm election cycle in history.
- ✓Spending topped the $11.2 billion used in the 2024 presidential cycle.
- ✓Much of this money flooded Senate battlegrounds, with the Texas race alone reaching a record $560 million as of October 23.
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With polls opening across the United States on Tuesday, the 2026 midterm elections have already set a record that no result can undo.
They are the most expensive midterm cycle ever recorded, and by some measures the most expensive election season of any kind.
That would top the roughly $11.2 billion spent in the 2024 presidential cycle and dwarf the $8.9 billion spent in the 2022 midterms.
The money is not spread evenly. It has flooded a short list of Senate battlegrounds, a handful of redrawn House districts and a few governor’s races, and most of it has come not from candidates but from super PACs, party-aligned nonprofits and a small group of ultra-wealthy donors.
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