Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey fended off his challenger Katie McGinty to win a second term.
The combined $155 million in spending from mostly outside groups made it the most expensive Senate race in history.
Around 2 a.m. on Wednesday at a Holiday Inn in Allentown, Toomey admitted that it was a hard-fought race. The door-to-door canvassing from each campaign and hours of negative television advertisements made that clear.
Toomey told supporters that when McGinty called him to congratulate, he returned it, congratulating her on “running a very spirited campaign,” shortly after that he said some of the ads aimed at him were “just out-right false.”
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