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Posted: 2022-10-26T22:29:02Z | Updated: 2022-11-03T18:14:14Z

WASHINGTON Donald Trump continually attacks Mitch McConnell with childish insults, yet with two weeks left before the midterms has spent just a tiny amount on behalf of Republican candidates compared to the Senate GOP leader.

The former presidents Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC has, through Wednesday, reported a total of $8.5 million spent for Republican Senate candidates barely 4% of the $204.5 million that McConnells Senate Leadership Fund has spent, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.

If Trumps PAC continues spending at the rate it did for the first half of October, and even if all that money comes from his Save America leadership PAC rather than outside benefactors, Trump would still be left with more than $80 million available for his own personal or political use after the midterms.

Trumps staff did not respond to HuffPost queries. Weeks ago, they touted the new super PAC as a way for Trump to spend heavily to help Republicans win back Congress.

Trump has spent $1.2 million attacking Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), $1.6 million opposing Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and $1.1 million going after Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). He has also spent $1.6 million and $2.3 million attacking John Fetterman and Tim Ryan, the Democratic Senate nominees in Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively, and another $706,000 boosting Blake Masters, the GOP nominee in Arizona.

Indeed, in all five races, the Republican nominee is Trumps choice, based almost entirely on a willingness to spread Trumps lies that the 2020 election had been stolen from him through voter fraud. In each of those five states, Republicans may have had a stronger chance of winning had a more mainstream candidate wound up as the nominee.