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U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland, a Democrat who has pounded home the message that big money has no place in politics or his campaign, has recently been buoyed by those same big-money donors.

On Friday, Weiland pledged that he will ask two political action committees that have spent nearly $2 million for campaign ads on his behalf to stop running ads promoting his candidacy.

Near the end of a 20-minute interview at the Rapid City Journal, Weiland said: "Yes, I am going to ask them to get out of this campaign."

But he did not come to that conclusion earlier in the interview. In fact, several times, he said he didn't like the big-money help, but asserted he was powerless to keep the super PACs out the race.

The two super PACs, Mayday PAC and Every Voice Action, have said they will spend about $1.75 million on commercials supporting Weiland's campaign against the other two senate candidates: former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, a Republican, and former U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler, running as an independent.

For much of the campaign, Rounds was the clear front-runner, but that has changed in recent weeks, according to several polls and national observers.