Republicans are counting on millionaires to flip the Senate

Mr. McCormick, Mr. Hovde and Mr. Sheehy will all face questions about their obligations to the states they seek to represent in the Senate. Mr. McCormick’s home in Connecticut was the main point of attack in 2022 when he lost the Republican primary to Mehmet Oz over a vacant Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Hovde grew up in Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and considers Madison home. But his ties to California will be central to the Democratic case against him.

Mr. Sheehy appears to be a dream candidate for Montana, but if he faces Mr. Tester, a flat rancher from Big Sandy, Mont., his recent arrival in the state could prove to be a problem. He grew up in Shoreview, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, in a multi-million dollar lake house, attended a private preparatory school and then the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, before graduating from the Army with a Bronze Star was fired. and a Purple Heart. He moved to Bozeman, Montana in 2014 and founded Bridger Aerospace and Ascent Vision Technologies, the latter of which he sold for $350 million in 2020.

Republicans involved in the general election campaigns say they have enough trouble refuting these allegations, at the very least muddying the waters: $1.3 million condominium in Washington, D.C., which Ms. Baldwin purchased with her partner, Maria Brisbane, in 2021; Mr. Tester’s rising net worth; and intra-family lobbying ties linked to Mr Casey.

As for their standard-bearer, Mr. Trump, his struggle to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming days to satisfy the judgment against him for corporate fraud raises questions not about how he made his money, but about whether he can do that. keep it.

His campaign, facing numerous financial pressures amid mounting legal bills from the criminal cases against him, is trying to raise money.