How the 2020 Candidates' Fundraising Is Stacking Up

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A week ago, every 2020 candidate filed their first-quarter financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. The reports track every dollar a candidate raised and spent, offering the first inside glimpse of the election and how the candidates are stacking up. President Trump, who held his first 2020 campaign rally less than a month after he was inaugurated, has the largest war chest of anyone in the field. But the candidate with the highest percentage of small-dollar donors — a key indicator of broad-based public support — is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, followed closely by Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang. (The candidate with the lowest percentage, just 10 percent of overall contributions, is Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.) Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has the highest burn-rate of any 2020 hopefuls, owing in large part to her campaign’s decision to build up campaign infrastructure in early-voting states.

Here’s what else you need to know about who’s giving money to who, and how the 2020 candidates are raising and spending their cash.

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Bernie Sanders
Total haul: $20,688,027, including $2.5 million transferred from other PACs and committees
Total raised from individual contributions: $18,186,300.21
Percent from donors giving $200 or less: 84 percent
Total spent: $5,026,077
Cash on hand: $15,661,950.36
Notable donors: Brandi Carlile, Danny DeVito, Norah Jones, former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij, Jackson Browne, Susan Sarandon
Notable expenditure: $154,500.95 on buttons and bumper stickers

Elizabeth Warren
Total haul: $16,482,752, including $10.4 million transferred from other PACs and committees
Total raised from individual contributions: $6,016,435.38
Percent from donors giving $200 or less: 70 percent
Total spent: $5,267,562
Cash on hand: $11,215,191
Notable donors: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his husband, Sean Eldridge; Jackson Browne
Notable expenditure: Warren has scaled her campaign faster than any of her rivals — her report shows a campaign’s payroll of more than a million dollars in the first quarter, not including payroll taxes or health insurance. The campaign also spent $1 in parking in the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she announced her campaign.

Kamala Harris
Total haul: $13,243,551, including $1.2 million transferred from other PACs and committees
Total raised from individual contributions: $12,024,121.55
Percent from donors giving $200 or less: 37 percent
Total spent: $4,285,426
Cash on hand: $8,958,125
Notable donors: Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Darren Aronofsky, Elizabeth Banks, Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Jenny Lewis, J.J. Abrams, Ben Affleck, Quincy Jones
Notable expenditure: An estimated $65,000 to the City of Oakland Police Department for security at her kick-off rally.

Kirsten Gillibrand
Total haul: $12,601,580, including $9.6 million transferred from other PACs and committees
Total raised from individual contributions: $2,997,884
Percent from donors giving $200 or less: 17 percent
Total spent: $2,433,078
Cash on hand: $10,168,502.18
Notable donors: Reese Witherspoon, Connie Britton, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg
Notable expenditure: $770 to offer valet parking at a campaign event; $1,497.14 on “supporter acknowledgements” at various flower shops.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/democrats-2020-campaign-candidates-money-826146/

[Indygram]

1. Kamala may want to return that Felicity Huffman donation

Just sayin'...

[George II]

2. I wonder how they got that data, the FEC hasn't posted details other than receipt and expenditure...

....totals and main category totals for receipts (other committees, itemized, unitemized) yet.

They're available for some candidates, but not those with the big numbers.

[SMC22307]

3. Ol' Kirsten's taken a lot of PAC money but substantially less in terms of individual contributions.

Why does that not surprise me.

[George II]

5. Doesn't surprise me at all. That's not "PAC money", it's...

..... "other PACs and committees"! The entire $9,600,000 of "other PACs and committees" is a transfer from HER own Senate campaign committee treasury. Not a penny of it is "PAC money". That's why it's important to get into the details of these numbers instead of just make assumptions from the summaries.

[SMC22307]

6. Ol' Kirsten's taken a lot of committee money but substantially less...

in terms of individual contributions.

Doesn't really change much.

[George II]

7. The committee money that " Ol' Kirsten" has "taken" was already contributed to her....

...during her Senate campaign. To get an idea of how much of it is individual contributions one would have to go to her Senate Committee financials, which I'm not going to do.

You want to call it "committee money", but that's a misrepresentation of what it really is.

But at least we know where most of her money has come from, not some huge pile of "unitemized" cash. Unitemized means we have no idea who the contributor is, the industry in which that contributor works, where the contributor lives, etc.

[brooklynite]

4. James Comey chipped in for Klobuchar

Susan Sarandon is going with Tulsi Gabbard.

[a kennedy]

11. Really?? Comey donated to Amy K.????

[stuffmatters]

8. Yay,Jackson Browne for Elizabeth Warren!

[leftofcool]

9. Looks like he donated to Bernie not Liz

[Nanjeanne]

10. Looks like he donated to both -- like me!

[RobertDevereaux]

12. See article for other candidates...

Beto, for example:

Beto O’Rourke
Total haul: $9,373,261
Total raised from individual contributions: $9,369,861
Percent from donors giving $200 or less: 59 percent
Total spent: $2,511,056
Cash on hand: $6,862,205.77
Notable donors: Willie Nelson, Phil Lesh, Anna Wintour, Richard Linklater
Notable expenditure O’Rourke, who famously eschewed pollsters and political consultants during his unsuccessful Senate bid against Ted Cruz, spent $1,277,742 with Middle Seat, a firm that consults on digital marketing; $9,000 at Civis Analytics, the data firm founded by the chief analytics officer for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign; and $2,200 at STG LLC, a “fully integrated political and public affairs consulting firm.”