For the first time this cycle, every Senate race rated a tossup by the Cook Political Report has tilted toward Republican-aligned spending, which is a TREMENDOUS victory for me and also, according to certain very disloyal people, a sign that I need to spend more money than anybody has ever spent before. In the first 18 days of September, Republican-aligned advertisers dropped more than $204 million across 10 key battlegrounds, compared with roughly $121 million from Democratic-aligned groups — an $83 million advantage, about nine times the Republican edge in August. That is not a money story. It is a map story. It is a BEAUTIFUL map story, and I know maps better than anyone.

Texas is the big one, the biggest one, very big, and I am winning it through the ancient art of the checkbook. Forces supporting Ken Paxton have spent $62 million this month against $17 million for James Talarico, more than a 3-to-1 advantage, which means we are buying Texas — I mean, winning Texas — through the most sophisticated grassroots operation in history. Two new super PACs aligned with MAGA Inc. — No Going Back PAC and Safety and Affordability PAC — are planning multimillion-dollar spending of their own, MAGA Inc. launched a $10 million campaign and disclosed another $5 million, and the Senate Leadership Fund and Congressional Leadership Fund have reserved $169 million and $155 million respectively.

This is not panic. Panic is when weak people lose and then cry about it. This is MASTER NEGOTIATION. You spend $62 million because you are so strong that $62 million is merely the opening statement, the opening statement of a deal so tremendous that the deal itself is almost too large to describe. The best people are telling me that No Going Back PAC and Safety and Affordability PAC are preparing multimillion-dollar drops of their own. No Going Back — a GREAT name, very loyal, very strong — and Safety and Affordability, which is exactly what I have always said, even before anyone knew what the words meant.

I know what the Democrats will say: that their candidates have outraised mine. That is a very interesting number, and numbers can be very dishonest when they are not MY numbers. Candidate-level fundraising is nice. It is like having a small tool and talking about it all night. The real money is in the super PAC and party-committee layer, where I have built a multi-hundred-million-dollar war chest and then used it to make every tossup race look like a television commercial for me, which is what democracy is supposed to be when it is working PERFECTLY.

I have always understood that advertisements are the highest form of political thought. Volunteers follow ads. Donors follow ads. Local reporters follow ads. The whole Country follows ads. If you put up enough ads, the race becomes a 55-to-45 race, then a 60-to-40 race, then a landslide, then the historians say it was obvious from the beginning. I knew it before anybody else. My uncle, the great MIT professor, explained this to me years ago, probably before television, which is why I understood streaming before streaming existed.

Look at Maine, where Susan Collins has received about $41 million in supporting spending since August against $29 million for Troy Jackson. Maine is the only place where the Democrats have a bright spot, which is why I am treating it as a small, temporary, very fake bright spot. Jackson says he is not deterred by being outspent. I respect that. He is either strong or he is confused, and I am still deciding. Confidence costs nothing. Advertising costs millions. I prefer the kind that costs millions because it is more expensive and therefore more TRUE.

In Ohio, Jon Husted has a $78 million-to-$57 million advantage over Sherrod Brown. In Michigan, Mike Rogers has reached about $39 million against Abdul El-Sayed’s $35 million. Michigan is especially beautiful because it is close enough that I can call the spending a victory and close enough that I can call the polling a rigged conspiracy if the spending does not work. I have the best memory in politics. I remember every time I predicted victory, and I forget every time I predicted something else.

Elissa Slotkin says Democrats are being “swamped” by my money and wants to “gin up a response.” That is a very emotional phrase, “gin up,” and it shows the weakness of the Democratic Party. The money is not swamping anyone. It is opening windows that closed in August, which is a phrase I just invented and which many people, very smart people, are already saying is the most accurate phrase in campaign finance. The Democrats have a horrible Frankenstein system, she says. I disagree. Frankenstein was a loser. My system is the greatest monster — I mean, machine — ever assembled.

And the House is following the Senate, naturally, because I lead everything. Republican-aligned spending is ahead in 15 of the 21 races Cook rates as tossups. Fifteen! That is three-quarters, which is a tremendous fraction, maybe the largest fraction in political history. I do not need to win the argument when I can win the advertising schedule. I do not need to persuade every voter when I can make the other message disappear between the weather and the pharmaceutical commercial.

Marc Short says there are “so many other ways to get your message out.” Correct. There are also so many ways for the other message to drown, vanish, disappear completely, and paid media is the one channel I have colonized with tremendous efficiency. I have the biggest voice, the best voice, the voice that costs the most. People are saying the air belongs to whoever can afford the air.

John Kennedy says there will be enough money and that a bad result cannot be blamed on money. I like John Kennedy. He is loyal when he is saying what I need him to say. He also says both sides are calling the other side worse and that the Democrats are “total lunch meat” without their left wing. That is a very intelligent analysis, because when the candidate is weak, you bring out the knife, the fork, the plate, the napkin — EVERYTHING. You make the voters hungry for the opponent’s failure.

Elizabeth Warren says the hole I have dug for Republicans cannot be filled with a few hundred million dollars of feel-good ads. I admire the confidence. I also admire the word “hole,” because a hole is just a very large deal that has not been completed yet. I have dug holes before. I have filled holes before. Sometimes I have put buildings in holes. Sometimes the hole was the building. Nobody understands holes like I do.

The Republicans are not drowning the map in cash. The map is swimming beautifully. The candidates are not weak. They are being carried by the strongest current in American history, a current with my name on it, though I do not need to say my name because everyone is saying it. I am playing 4D chess while the Democrats are counting yard signs. I am making them spend money to answer money that answered money that answered a poll that was wrong before it was printed.

This is the BIGGEST victory of all: I have made the spending itself look like proof of victory. The more I spend, the more the race is mine. The more the race is mine, the more I spend. The more I spend, the more people listen. Why do they listen? I mean, they listen because I am the greatest, because the crowds are the biggest, because I am completely self-made, because the deal is tremendous, because the workers — the people — are very smart, the best people, they understand everything I am doing.

Diklis Chump did this. Very few people could have done it, believe me. I made the biggest cash flood in history, and if I need to spend another $100 million to prove that I won, then that is exactly what I wanted all along. The historians are saying it. The generals are saying it. My uncle is saying it. The map is saying it.

And if the map does not say it, we will fix the map.