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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
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James, John

candidate · S8MI00372
James, John MI · REP · Senate · MI · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: James, John · every race, every cycle

5 cycles2 committees119 contributing committees346 vendors

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

20162028
Raised Spent IE support Transferred out

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).

In this race

2020

DEM

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Peters, Gary incumbent 582

REP

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
James, John (this candidate) challenger 153

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.

In the 2020 Senate field

MI

James, John ranks #22 of 558 Senate candidates nationally in 2020.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Warnock, Raphael GA DEM $215,222,453
2 Ossoff, T. Jonathan GA DEM $214,842,226
3 Kelly, Mark AZ DEM $187,045,474
4 Harrison, Jaime SC DEM $119,916,011
5 Sullivan, Dan AK REP $109,507,676
6 McGrath, Amy KY DEM $81,476,987
7 Gideon, Sara ME DEM $58,099,579
8 Graham, Lindsey O. SC REP $55,788,928
22 James, John (this candidate) MI REP $21,866,337

The national Senate field for 2020, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.

Campaign contact

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, 48334

Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).

Money raised vs spent

coming

Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.

Where the money comes from

by source type

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 89% · PACs 10% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)436461$19,490,790
PACs340$2,256,566
Super PACs47$64,854
Party committees5$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.

Transfers in

from committees
Payer typeTransfersAmount
Joint-fundraising committees35$672,518
Total$672,518

Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

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.

PAC vs. individual money

by dollars

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.

Where the money goes

beneficiaries

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.

Where the donors are

precinct-floored · suppressed
Partial data. About 15% of donor money is geocoded, concentrated in 9 states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL). Every other state — including the largest donor states (CA, NY, TX) — currently has zero geocoded rows. A blank state means not yet geocoded, never no donors here. Not a complete picture of donor geography.
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Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.

Who runs it

Treasurer · CRATE, BRADLEY T.

Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Michigan Senate Republican Nominee Fund - John James Authorized committee S
John James For Senate, Inc. Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2020:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
WinredWinRed · conduit $19,490,790 436,461 2020
Senate Conservatives Fund $945,964 59 2020
American Principles $4,500 5 2020
Association Of American Physicians And Surgeons, Inc. Political Action Committee (Aaps-Pac) $6,000 5 2020
Seal Pac Supporting Electing American Leaders Pac $10,000 4 2020
Hoosier Pac $10,000 4 2020
Friends Of Snowmobiling Pac $700 3 2020
Friends Of Mia Love Pac $9,000 3 2020
Alliance Coal, Llc Pac $10,000 3 2020
The Peter Norbeck Leadership Pac $15,000 3 2020
National Federation Of Independent Business Federal Political Action Committee $7,500 3 2020
National Association Of Wholesaler-Distributors Political Action Committee $10,000 3 2020
The Hawkeye Pac $5,000 2 2020
Burger King Franchisee Pac $5,000 2 2020
Black America'S Political Action Committee $7,500 2 2020
Devon Energy Corporation Political Action Committee (Dec Pac) $10,000 2 2020
Western Energy Alliance Pac $5,000 2 2020
International Foodservice Distributors Association Political Action Committee $5,000 2 2020
Koch, Inc. Political Action Committee (Kochpac) $9,000 2 2020
Continental Resources, Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 2 2020
Conservative Victory Fund $450 2 2020
Strategy Pac $10,000 2 2020
Rely On Your Beliefs Fund $10,000 2 2020
Upper Hand Fund $5,000 2 2020
International Bank Of Commerce Committee For Improvement And Betterment Of The Country $5,000 2 2020

Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

100% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2020) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 436,461 of 436,696 contributions · 93% of dollars ($19,490,790).

ConduitAmount
WinRed$19,490,790

Conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are passthroughs — individuals give through them to candidates. This is the share of committee-routed contributions flowing over that infrastructure. Donor-level pass-through to the ultimate recipient is tracked separately (in progress).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

3 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / 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).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 36 committees · 602 expenditures · $6,202,772  ·  Opposing: 20 · 145 · $39,184,830

CommitteeStanceAmount
Senate Conservatives Fund supports $1,022,130
Right To Life Of Michigan Victory Fund supports $5,728
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund supports $76,463
Smp opposes $34,386,449
Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action supports $754,792
Women Speak Out Pac supports $223,222
Elbert Guillory'S America supports $271,974
For Our Future opposes $3,922
Defenders Of Freedom And Security supports $31,310
Senate Conservatives Action supports $196,717
Planned Parenthood Votes opposes $7,627
Club For Growth Pac supports $6,687
Americas Pac supports $1,301,408
Black America'S Political Action Committee supports $95,229
Lcv Victory Fund opposes $344,585

Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).

67% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
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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