Pro-Biden super PAC eyes New Hampshire primary victory with $900K in ad spending

A super PAC backing Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential campaign plans to spend close to $1 million in ads to boost the former vice president in New Hampshire with less than one week to go until the state’s primary.

Unite the Country announced Tuesday that it’s preparing to drop $900,000 on a television and digital advertising blitz ahead of the Granite State’s Feb. 11 primary. Biden initially pledged not to accept PAC money but he reversed course in late October because of low fundraising. Biden is among the leaders in a wide field of candidates seeking their party's backing to run against incumbent President Trump.

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The expansion comes in the wake of mass confusion during the Iowa caucuses on Monday night, after technical difficulties with a new mobile app intended to streamline the first-in-the-nation nominating contest instead forced the Iowa Democratic Party to delay the results. Confusion from the caucuses has dragged into a third day as uncertainty continues to linger.

Early results indicated that former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg was in a narrow first place, followed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who trailed by only 1.6 percentage points. With 71 percent of precincts reporting (1,250 of 1,765), Biden had captured just 15.4 percent of support.

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Sanders is expected to sail through New Hampshire, which he won in 2016. Still, Biden continues to lead the pack nationally, according to an average of national polls from RealClearPolitics, as well as in Nevada and South Carolina, the third and fourth states to vote.

But Mark Doyle, a former Biden aide who chairs the board of Unite the Country, told The Hill that Biden’s base of support is broader than the electorates in New Hampshire and Iowa.

“We fully understand the first two states on the primary calendar work against candidates whose base of support comes from the breadth of the Democratic electorate,” he said. “But we plan to aggressively tell our story in each of the next three states.”

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