Scott spent $64 million on Senate bid

Gov. Rick Scott spent almost $64 million of his own money to win by just 0.08 percentage points in his U.S. Senate race, according to Thursday’s latest campaign filing with the Federal Election Commission.

The final tally includes more than $12 million Scott personally spent in the final few weeks of the campaign, money that went in part toward ads shoring up his foothold in the Hispanic community and pledging to force insurance companies to cover pre-existing health conditions.

In the end, Scott contributed more than 75 percent of the nearly $83 million his campaign took in. The New Republican PAC spent an additional $28 million backing Scott, the largest total independent expenditure on the campaign.

Scott’s opponent, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, raised a little over $25 million as of mid-October. But his campaign was helped by more than $33 million in combined spending from PACs ranging from the Democratic Senate Majority PAC to Priorities USA Action.