{"id":19036,"date":"2026-02-15T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/koch-backed-group-posts-7-figure-ad-buy-in-north-carolina-senate-race-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:22:15","slug":"koch-backed-group-posts-7-figure-ad-buy-in-north-carolina-senate-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/koch-backed-group-posts-7-figure-ad-buy-in-north-carolina-senate-race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch-backed group posts 7-figure ad buy in North Carolina Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans for Prosperity Action, the political arm of the powerful conservative Koch network, has placed a 7-figure ad buy for former RNC Chair Michael Whatley&rsquo;s Senate campaign in North Carolina, banking an early investment in a must-win seat for the GOP in what&#8217;s expected to be one of the most expensive races in the country&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/12\/congress\/koch-backed-group-posts-7-figure-ad-buy-in-n-c-senate-race-00776363\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans for Prosperity Action, the political arm of the powerful conservative Koch network, has placed a 7-figure ad buy for former RNC Chair Michael Whatley&rsquo;s Senate campaign in North Carolina, banking an early investment in a must-win seat for the GOP in what&#8217;s expected to be one of the most expensive races in the country&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}