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National Rifle Association
The battle over the Supreme Court nominee will reveal a lot about the gun group’s influence.
Election 2016
Election results mark a continuation of the group's impressive success rate when making large investments on candidates.
The NRA spent record sums to get its desired White House and Senate outcomes, but was bested by gun violence prevention groups in the cycle's most expensive ballot initiative fight.
The gun group has invested nearly $1.5 million to re-elect Roy Blunt and Marco Rubio.
With 60 days to go before the election, the group has begun to pour money into races in Indiana and Wisconsin.
A new tool from Slate sifts through more than 25 years of the gun group’s expenditures.
Kay Hagan’s 2014 loss in North Carolina showed how far upstart gun violence prevention organizations may have to go to match the NRA when it spends big.
