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Two industry-aligned political action committees poured more than $52 million into opposing former lawmaker Sherrod Brown's return to the Senate in Ohio. Affiliates of the Fairshake PAC spent $46.6 million on media, while the Digital Freedom Fund reported about $3 million in ad spending this week to support Republican incumbent Jon Husted.
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