House Dem campaign arm jumps in with $600k buy to help save its own chief

The Maloney-run Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will spend just over $600,000 on air cover for him starting Tuesday as he battles challenger Michael Lawler in a more-competitive-than-expected race. That money is on top of $110,000 in support on TV from another outside group, Our Hudson, which formed earlier this year to aid Maloney in his August primary and jumped back in amid escalating Republican attacks…

While the campaign chief initially downplayed the necessity of outside help, multiple Democrats said his tone has shifted in the last week after the House Republicans’ main super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, dumped millions of dollars more on the airwaves…

Many in the party feel they have no choice but to protect Maloney, whose loss as chair of the DCCC would be a massive embarrassment for the party. But it’s also a painful development for a Democratic caucus dealing with relatively limited resources in a midterm environment that has favored the GOP from the start.