--- title: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Silent on Kentucky's Airwaves description: The DSCC is not airing TV ads in Kentucky, where Alison Lundergan Grimes in campaigning to unseat Mitch McConnell canonical: https://time.com/3507359/kentucky-grimes-mcconnell-dscc/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-14T19:57:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:47:15.977Z article:section: Politics og:title: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Silent on Kentucky's Airwaves og:description: The DSCC is not airing TV ads in Kentucky, where Alison Lundergan Grimes in campaigning to unseat Mitch McConnell og:url: https://time.com/3507359/kentucky-grimes-mcconnell-dscc/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7357de9e195365e1/698760d406f2c15d2c331623/ap341726133294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Silent on Kentucky's Airwaves twitter:description: The DSCC is not airing TV ads in Kentucky, where Alison Lundergan Grimes in campaigning to unseat Mitch McConnell twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7357de9e195365e1/698760d406f2c15d2c331623/ap341726133294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Democratic Group Goes Dark in Key Senate Race > Sponsored content. 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Pablo Alcala—AP/The Lexington Herald-Leader by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 14, 2014 7:57 PM UTC The Democratic candidate in one of the most closely-watched Senate races in the country is entering the homestretch of her campaign without TV advertising support from a key party group. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is not airing TV ads in Kentucky, a DSCC official confirmed, where Alison Lundergan Grimes in campaigning to unseat Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “The DSCC has now spent more than $2 million in Kentucky and continues to make targeted investments in the ground game while monitoring the race for future investments,” the DSCC official said. The committee, Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, could still announce a TV ad buy in the future. The DSCC, which has outraised its Republican counterpart group, is on the air in many other competitive states, including Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina and South Dakota, as the party fights to keep its Senate majority. [McConnell is leading Grimes by about three points](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ky/kentucky%5Fsenate%5Fmcconnell%5Fvs%5Fgrimes-3485.html), according to a _Real Clear Politics_ average of polling data. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3507359/kentucky-grimes-mcconnell-dscc/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3507359/kentucky-grimes-mcconnell-dscc/"},"headline":"Democratic Group Goes Dark in Key Senate Race","datePublished":"2014-10-14T19:57:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:47:15.977Z","description":"The DSCC is not airing TV ads in Kentucky, where Alison Lundergan Grimes in campaigning to unseat Mitch McConnell","url":"https://time.com/3507359/kentucky-grimes-mcconnell-dscc/","keywords":["2014 Election","Congress","Mitch McConnell","Alison Lundergan Grimes","Kentucky"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7357de9e195365e1/698760d406f2c15d2c331623/ap341726133294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7357de9e195365e1/698760d406f2c15d2c331623/ap341726133294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes","caption":"Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes","creditText":"Pablo Alcala—AP/The Lexington Herald-Leader","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2014-election/","name":"2014 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3507359/kentucky-grimes-mcconnell-dscc/","name":"Democratic Group Goes Dark in Key Senate Race"}}]}] ```