Person: James, John · every race, every cycle
Raised — contributing committees / cycle
Spent — vendor payments / cycle
IE support — independent expenditures for this candidate / cycle
Transferred out — other candidates funded / cycle
All four, combined -- 2016-2028
2016–2028 · entity counts (money-dark); dollar trends light up at the flip. "Raised" is committee-routed contributions only — individual donors stay held pending the privacy decision, and there is no distinct bundler surface yet (#2488).
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stabenow, Debbie | incumbent | — | 581 |
REP · primary contest (4 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James, John (this candidate) | challenger | — | 153 | ||||
| Epstein, Lena Rose | challenger | — | 8 | ||||
| Pensler, Sandy | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Young, Bob | challenger | — | 1 |
LIB · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellison, Brian James | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Willis, Valerie Lee | challenger | — | — |
Every candidate on file for this race. A party with more than one filer is a live primary contest -- who becomes that party's nominee isn't in the data yet. Cash on hand is the official FEC filing figure, as of the filing's own coverage date -- not a live estimate. The remaining columns are money-dark proxies (counts, not dollars); a dash means no data on file for that candidate yet. Click a column heading to sort.
James, John ranks #12 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.
| # | Candidate | State | Party | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanders, Bernard | VT | IND | $56,355,723 |
| 2 | Brown, Sherrod | OH | DEM | $43,945,698 |
| 3 | Tester, R. Jon | MT | DEM | $41,514,204 |
| 4 | McSally, Martha | AZ | REP | $38,525,275 |
| 5 | Murphy, Christopher S | CT | DEM | $31,406,433 |
| 6 | Warren, Elizabeth | MA | DEM | $30,998,675 |
| 7 | Baldwin, Tammy | WI | DEM | $30,006,651 |
| 8 | Casey, Robert P. Jr. | PA | DEM | $26,183,788 |
| 12 | James, John (this candidate) | MI | REP | $21,866,337 |
The national Senate field for 2018, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, 48334
Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).
Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.
● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 89% · ● PACs 10% · ● Super PACs 0% · ● Party committees 0%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 436461 | $19,490,790 |
| PACs | 340 | $2,256,566 |
| Super PACs | 47 | $64,854 |
| Party committees | 5 | $54,128 |
| Total (committee-sourced) | $21,866,337 |
Money received from committees, split by the type of the paying committee (PAC, Super PAC, party, joint-fundraising, conduit). Individual (person) giving is aggregated separately with privacy suppression and is not included here.
| Payer type | Transfers | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Joint-fundraising committees | 35 | $672,518 |
| Total | $672,518 |
Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.
34% by dollars
81060 of 174876 individual contributions on file routed through a conduit, lifetime -- not per-cycle (the underlying edge source can't be cleanly split by year). Conduit dollars are the true donor's money, passed through a platform; not double-counted.
● Individual (direct) 74% · ● Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 26%
174876 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 436853 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($62,078,509 vs $21,866,337). Two different grains -- individual money is scoped to the principal committee only; committee-routed money spans every authorized committee -- combined here as the closest count-first read of PAC- vs individual-dependence available today. Part of the funding-concentration strip (#2730); donor-sector concentration and top-vendor share are not yet available.
Money disbursed by this candidate's principal committee: contributions to other candidates (the "raises big, then funds allies" signal), transfers to committees by destination type, vendor spending, and independent expenditures made.
Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.
Treasurer · CRATE, BRADLEY T.
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan Senate Republican Nominee Fund - John James | Authorized committee | S |
| John James For Senate, Inc. | Principal campaign committee | S |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:
Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).
3 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
| Committee / PAC | Overall giving | D / R |
|---|---|---|
| Butzel Long Federal Political Action Committee | 47% / 53% | |
| New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee | 47% / 53% | |
| Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Of America Pac (Us Chamber Pac) | 20% / 80% |
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
Supporting: 21 committees · 324 expenditures · $3,738,111 · Opposing: 0 · 0 · —
| Committee | Stance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Right To Life Of Michigan Victory Fund | supports | $37,679 |
| Senate Conservatives Fund | supports | $327,541 |
| Right To Life Of Michigan Political Action Committee | supports | $6,318 |
| Vigop (Virgin Islands Republican Party) | supports | $26,738 |
| Michigan Republican Party | supports | $1,623,869 |
| Outsider Pac | supports | $607,188 |
| Esafund | supports | $887,654 |
| Valor America | supports | $48,151 |
| Defenders Of Freedom And Security | supports | $20,335 |
| National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund | supports | $30,873 |
| Susan B Anthony List Inc | supports | $19,825 |
| Women Speak Out Pac | supports | $11,860 |
| Restoration Pac | supports | $7,500 |
| Special Operations For America | supports | $71,000 |
| Gun Owners Of America, Inc. | supports | $250 |
Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).
15% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).
| Vendor | Paid | Payments | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winred Technical Services Llc | $1,020,408 | 314 | |
| Revv, Llc | $194,765 | 289 | |
| Imge Llc | $1,374,619 | 286 | |
| Conservative Connector | $366,749 | 213 | |
| Anedot | $108,483 | 194 | |
| Reach Right Digital Marketing, Llc | $190,131 | 194 | |
| Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. | $6,178 | 186 | |
| Tag, Llc | $2,261,834 | 162 | |
| Stripe | $38,399 | 139 | |
| Campaigninbox | $35,035 | 133 | |
| Right Country Lists | $626,212 | 130 | |
| Conservative Direct | $13,513 | 116 |
Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.
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