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Millionaire candidates pour cash into Ohio, Pa. Senate races

FILE - Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, left, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, right, look on as Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin discusses a $10 million donation to reduce gun violence in the city during a press conference in Chicago, April 12, 2018. Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Griffin has contributed millions to a super PAC supporting former hedge fund CEO David McCormick in Pennsylvania. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

FILE - Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred dollar bills to attendees during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference, April 7, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Billionaire tech investor Thiel has poured money into a super PAC backing “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

FILE - Dave McCormick, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, meets with attendees during a campaign event in Warminster, Pa., March 7, 2022. Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin has contributed millions to a super PAC supporting McCormick. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

FILE - Republican Senate candidate JD Vance speaks at a rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio. Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, has poured money into a super PAC backing Vance. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

FILE - Senatorial candidate Mike Gibbons speaks with supporters during a campaign rally in Maineville, Ohio, Jan. 14, 2022. Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gibbons, an Ohio investment banker, leads the pack of self-funders in both states after loaning his campaign almost $17 million. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)

Millionaire candidates pour cash into Ohio, Pa. Senate races