Now Michael Bloomberg, who is richer than all of them, is reportedly positioning to do the same. And while those four made the headlines, around 100 other billionaires have been quietly donating to Democratic hopefuls.
The first was a bar graph with the politicians who received donations and the second was line graph with a dual axis. The second visual was a dual axis line graph with the years and percentage of donation by party.
The top politicians that receive money from the NRA are overwhelmingly Republican with Donald Trump who is the the top politician of the Republican party with over 11 million dollars from the National Rifle Association. An additional 19 million was spent in 2016 against the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Or Bernie Sanders, who has raised more money than any other Democrat, without a single billionaire donor that Forbes could find. ( One spouse of a billionaire gave to the Vermont senator.) But friends with padded wallets tend to come in handy as elections push forward and candidates spend more and more money.
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Forbes mined roughly 2.5 million entries in the Federal Election Commission database and found that almost 20% of American billionaires have donated—either directly or through their spouse—to the campaign committees of Democrats running for president. Ninety-one billionaires donated in their own names.
A billionaire himself, Steyer has contributed $47.6 million of his own money to his campaign, which means that he’s gotten only about $2 million from other donors, including three Fishers, all heirs to the Gap fortune. A month before Steyer declared his candidacy, his wife, Kat Taylor, donated to Jay Inslee’s campaign.
We found 22 billionaires who did not give any money but are married to people who did. By the close of the latest fundraising period, on September 30, 2019, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker each counted at least 40 billionaires or spouses of billionaires among their backers. Call it the billionaire horse race, as candidates ...
The Twitter cofounder is the only known billionaire donating to Gabbard. In June, Dorsey gave her the maximum $2,800 for both the primary and general elections.
Notable backer: Marta Thoma Hall (wife of David Hall) Federal filings show that the billionaire basher received a negligible $470 from Marta Thoma Hall, the wife of billionaire Velodyne founder David Hall. After Forbes notified the Sanders’ camp of the contribution, the campaign said he won’t be keeping the money.
Notable backers: Glenn Dubin, Reid Hoffman, John Sall. Bullock has made overturning the Supreme Court case Citizens United, which opened up unlimited spending in national politics, a key part of his platform. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t received donations from donors with billion-dollar fortunes.
Yang welcomed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to the Yang Gang on his own platform after he made a contribution in March, tweeting, “More people join the #YangGang all the time.”