# WinSenate **WinSenate** (FEC committee **C00865444**) is the Senate Democrats' independent-expenditure super PAC — the counterpart to the Republicans' [[Senate Leadership Fund]]. It registered with the FEC on **2024-01-10**, is based at 1032 15th Street NW, Suite 247, Washington DC, and its treasurer of record is **Rebecca Lambe**. It is tracked here because it is the largest single-notice independent-expenditure filer on the Democratic side of the 2026 cycle, and because the vault's Republican-side race files cannot be read without it. ## Filed independent expenditures, 2026 cycle | Notice | Received | Amount | Races | Deal page | |---|---|---|---|---| | **Form 24, file 2015058** | 2026-09-24 | **$21,234,850.04** | 7 | [[WinSenate 21.2M Senate Map IE September 2026]] | | **Form 24, file 2016120** | 2026-10-01 | **$23,670,639.55** | 7 | [[WinSenate 23.7M Senate Map IE October 2026]] | | **Form 24, file 2016676** | 2026-10-03 | **$3,838,759.49** | 4 | logged on the race files; below Deal threshold | | **Form 24, file 2018482** | **2026-10-08** | **$19,179,242.35** | **6** | [[WinSenate 19.2M Senate Map IE October 2026]] | | | | **$67,923,491.43** | | **four notices, fifteen days** | The three large notices are overwhelmingly negative — 94%, 88% and **86.71%** respectively — and all run most of their money through a single media buyer, **[[Waterfront Strategies]]** (67%, 83% and **69.29%**). 🔴 **On 2026-10-08 the committee's largest position was Iowa, not Michigan or Ohio.** File **2018482** (`F24N`, received 16:43:18) put **$5,706,524.68 against [[Ashley Hinson]]** across three lines, ahead of **$4,663,236.58 against [[Susan Collins]]** and **$3,677,385.52 against [[Mike Rogers]]**. Only two races got positive money — [[Abdul El-Sayed]] at $2,123,776.00 and [[Chris Pappas]] at $425,000.00 — and the notice carries a **$1,000.00** line paid to **[[C Plus K LLC]]** coded *oppose [[Jon Husted]]*, the first appearance of that vendor on a Democratic-side independent expenditure in this vault. **The 2026-10-03 notice (file 2016676) is 99.7% negative and changes buyer entirely.** Four lines, expenditure date 2026-10-01, no Waterfront Strategies at all: **$2,297,599.57** against [[Jon Husted]] via **C Plus K LLC**, **$1,500,000.00** against [[Ashley Hinson]] via **Trilogy Interactive LLC**, **$28,984.00** against [[Mike Rogers (Michigan)]] via Dixon/Davis Media Group LLC, and **$12,175.92** supporting [[Troy Jackson]] via MVAR Media, LLC. The Iowa line is the **first independent expenditure opposing [[Ashley Hinson]]** recorded anywhere in this vault. ## The Suite 247 cluster Three other super PACs filed Form 24 notices on 2026-10-01 from **the same address**, two of them with the **same treasurer**: | Committee | FEC ID | Treasurer | Notice | Amount | |---|---|---|---|---| | WinSenate | C00865444 | Rebecca Lambe | 2016120 | $23,670,639.55 | | [[The Georgia Way]] | C00953398 | Rebecca Lambe | 2016118 | $1,428,150.53 | | [[North Star]] | C00957522 | Rebecca Lambe | 2016117 | $1,345,262.45 | | [[Texas Forever]] | C00962308 | Kris Koob | 2016119 | $2,113,210.00 | That is **$28,557,262.53 from one suite number on one day**. The state-branded members of it are the Democratic-side instance of the pattern recorded at [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]]. 🔴 **A fifth committee joined the cluster on 2026-10-03, and it shares a vendor as well as the address.** [[Duty and Country]] (FEC **C00666388**, treasurer **Booth Goodwin**) filed from 1032 15th Street NW Ste 247 and placed **$3,211,060.35** against [[Jon Husted]] through **C Plus K LLC** — the same buyer WinSenate used for its own **$2,297,599.57** anti-Husted line on the same expenditure date. **Combined: $5,508,659.92 against one candidate, on one day, from one suite number, through one vendor.** Unlike the Suite 247 committees above, Duty and Country does not share WinSenate's treasurer and its committee ID predates the 2026 cycle. See [[Duty and Country]]. > [!note] Stub > Created 2026-10-02 to resolve links from two Deal pages; extended 2026-10-04. Still to establish: receipt > history and major donors, the formal relationship (if any) to the Senate Majority PAC lineage, and whether > the Suite 247 committees are legally affiliated or merely share a compliance address. **New open question:** > what C Plus K LLC is, and why two committees at the same address with different treasurers used it against > the same candidate on the same day. ## See Also - [[WinSenate 21.2M Senate Map IE September 2026]] · [[WinSenate 23.7M Senate Map IE October 2026]] - [[Senate Leadership Fund]] · [[SLF 23.6M Senate IE September 2026]] · [[Fairshake PAC]] - [[The Georgia Way]] · [[North Star]] · [[Texas Forever]] · [[Duty and Country]] · [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]] - [[OH-Sen-2026-Special]] · [[MI-Sen-2026]] · [[IA-Sen-2026]] · [[ME-Sen-2026]] · [[NH-Sen-2026]] · [[NC-Sen-2026]] · [[AK-Sen-2026]] - [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Super PACs]] - [[Organizations Hub]]