A new television ad from a national political action committee portraying Darryl Glenn as a competent and electable underdog in the Colorado Senate race began airing across the state Monday and will appear for the next 10 days.

Restoration PAC will spend $800,000 on the 30-second ads.

“Darryl Glenn is just the kind of leader America needs right now in our time of great uncertainty, division and decline,” Doug Truax, head of the PAC, said in a statement announcing the buy on Monday.

Truax said the PAC is nonpartisan and “favors helping underfunded but otherwise strong candidates as a way to break the back of insider politics.”

Glenn is an El Paso County commissioner.

Before the five-way Republican primary in June, Glenn also got support from an “outsider” PAC, the Senate Conservatives Fund, which dropped thousands of dollars on last-minute ads for Glenn. According to Glenn’s July quarterly campaign finance report, he had $118,964 cash on hand as of June 30.

Incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat from Denver, had $6.1 million cash on hand.

The new Glenn advertisement picks up on that disparity.

“America loves an underdog story, and Colorado is going to love Darryl Glenn,” the ad says.

Darryl Glenn, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Colorado, speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

J. Scott Applewhite