Whitehouse Beats Back Flanders’ Challenge for U.S. Senate Seat
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Sitting U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has defeated former RI Supreme Court Justice Bob Flanders to retain the Senate seat.
Whitehouse ran a campaign on preserving the tenants of Obamacare and used a money advantage to get his message out. Flanders who started the race with little name recognition ran on a message that he would work across the political aisle and be a bi-partisan compromiser.
But, Flanders trailed Whitehouse badly in both the June and October polls conducted by Harvard's John Della Volpe.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTWhile Whitehouse won, the Democrats lost between two and five seats in the Senate. Three races Florida, Montana and Arizona are still to close to call as of 7:30 am on Wednesday.
Whitehouse outspent Flanders by a margin of 5 to 1.
Whitehouse raised $6,542,975.98, spent $5,312,657.94, and still has $2,047,493.97 cash-on-hand according to Federal Eelection Commission data.
In contrast, Flanders raised $1,131,604.82, spent $1,071,327.52 and on through October 17 had just $58,391.22 cash-on-hand.
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