StarkFreedom PAC, founded by Aaron Day and built and run in-house with artificial intelligence, added 18 ads overnight, bringing its total to 45 live on X and Facebook across all eight Senate races. It backs eight candidates running against the Republican in New Hampshire, Texas, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, South Carolina and Minnesota, with the stated aim of costing the GOP each seat rather than winning them. The release points to 2016, when third-party candidates in New Hampshire outvoted the margin that beat the Republican, and says no Republican has been sent to Congress from the state since. It also says the AI system behind the ads beat New Hampshire's Secretary of State in federal court in 76 days, while Day is not a candidate and backs Edmond Laplante. Day argues that a Democratic Senate could end the war with Iran and expose corruption.
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