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Here are the 10 biggest donors in the midterm elections
The Hill ^ | BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM

Posted on 11/05/2022 5:19:11 PM PDT by FarCenter

Rich Americans spent big this midterm season to impact down-ballot races for their candidates of choice.

The 2022 midterm election cycle has seen a boom in spending in the lead-up to Election Day. Research group OpenSecrets estimates that federal election spending increased by nearly $2 billion compared to 2018.

Even more eye-popping, 10 wealthy individuals poured $540 million combined into this year’s elections, according to campaign finance data from OpenSecrets.

These mega-donors are giving most of their money to outside groups such as super PACs that can raise and spend unlimited sums on election ads.

Roughly 62 percent of their donations boosted Republicans, who have received far more support than Democrats from big money groups leading up to November, a reversal from recent elections where wealthy donors favored Democrats.

Here are the 10 largest donors in the midterms, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission filings compiled by OpenSecrets:

George Soros Total donations: $128.5M

Affiliation: Democrat

Richard Uihlein Total donations: $80.7M

Affiliation: Republican

Kenneth Griffin Total donations: $68.6M

Affiliation: Republican

Jeff Yass Total donations: $47.3M

Affiliation: Republican

Timothy Mellon Total donations: $40M

Affiliation: Republican

Sam Bankman-Fried Total donations: $39.8M

Affiliation: Democrat

Fred Eychaner Total donations: $35.8M

Affiliation: Democrat

Stephen Schwarzman Total donations: $35.5M

Affiliation: Republican

Peter Thiel Total donations: $32.6M

Affiliation: Republican

Larry Ellison Total donations: $31M

Affiliation: Republican

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2022election; election2022
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1 posted on 11/05/2022 5:19:11 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

Piggy Soros looks like he’s trying to buy the government. Friggin’ Nazi.


2 posted on 11/05/2022 5:20:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cayler Ellingson (18), American murdered by the Stalinist "democRAT" Party. R.I.P.)
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To: FarCenter

And of course the MSM won’t tell you this, cause the MSM GETS MUCH OF THE $$$. So self serving.


3 posted on 11/05/2022 5:22:06 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: FarCenter

I wish my company would dump SalesForce and migrate to Oracle. SalesForce should be dumped into a Dolphin tank at Seaworld.


4 posted on 11/05/2022 5:27:18 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: FarCenter

I love to see Soros waste his money.


5 posted on 11/05/2022 5:30:13 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I cannot imagine the security this guy buys and has most of my life…I’m 68. Some folks are just too evil and mean to die, even disease and germs avoid them.


6 posted on 11/05/2022 5:30:56 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: FarCenter

Well our totals are higher!!


7 posted on 11/05/2022 5:31:13 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That’s just what shows up on the radar screen for soroz


8 posted on 11/05/2022 5:32:19 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: thinden

Yeah. I’m sure ghe Open Borders Society dumps much more into their efforts.


9 posted on 11/05/2022 5:34:41 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Preachin'

Soroz does a lot of bottom fishing too.

He can buy 3-4 secretarys of state, a few attys general & dozens of prosecuting attys for what on US congressman goes for.


10 posted on 11/05/2022 5:36:00 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: Persevero

7 out of 10 support Republibicans
Hooaa!


11 posted on 11/05/2022 5:38:23 PM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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To: George from New England

It is all cash, super duper payola for the local stations..


12 posted on 11/05/2022 5:38:35 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: bigfootbob

“. . . life…I’m 68. . . .”

I have read that only 8 in 100 in the world live beyond age 65.


13 posted on 11/05/2022 5:39:46 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: FarCenter

I’d bet a good chunk of Soros money is going to DAs


14 posted on 11/05/2022 5:41:33 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: FarCenter

Larry Ellison used to be a Dem but I know he backed Trump twice.


15 posted on 11/05/2022 5:47:34 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: FarCenter

Do they give this money hoping it will change the results, or so the politicians owe them?


16 posted on 11/05/2022 5:48:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Preachin'; All

Soros pay off antifa to riot and burn down cities, pays off mayors, police chiefs and district attorneys. He should have been taken out decades ago.


17 posted on 11/05/2022 5:48:23 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I wish we could give Gyorgy a free helicopter ride, courtesy of Augusto Pinochet.


18 posted on 11/05/2022 5:54:01 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: gundog

Yeah. I’m sure ghe Open Borders Society dumps much more into their efforts

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From what I’ve read, he’s got 100’s of NGO’s scattered around the world including UKE & Myanmar.

They prolly get a chunk of their funding from places like USAID & US State Dept ( that’s prolly a big reason the hildabeast became so powerful as SoS & another reason the CF & CGI were brimming with $$$ from their own vig or kick back shake down schemes)

All these no bail DAs are on his payroll.


19 posted on 11/05/2022 5:56:50 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: bigfootbob

They have access to medical resources you probably cannot get...believe it.


20 posted on 11/05/2022 5:58:39 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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