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Daines, Steve

candidate · S2MT00096
Daines, Steve MT · REP · Senate · MT · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Daines, Steve · every race, every cycle

9 cycles15 committees134 contributing committees258 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

2018

DEM

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Tester, R. Jon incumbent 675

REP · primary contest (5 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Daines, Steve (this candidate) incumbent 739
Downing, Troy challenger 4
Fagg, Russell C challenger 4
Olszewski, Albert David challenger 1
Rosendale, Matt Mr. challenger 105

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 2018 Senate field

MT

529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
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

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. This candidate did not appear in the returned set.

Campaign contact

BELGRADE, MT, 59714

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

Money raised vs spent

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

Where the money comes from

by source type

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 82% · PACs 17% · Party committees 0% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)492207$18,077,590
PACs1624$3,785,751
Party committees2$49,600
Super PACs14$32,500
Total (committee-sourced)$21,945,441

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 committees62$1,157,141
Total$1,157,141

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

10% by dollars

53474 of 224201 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) 67% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 33%

224201 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 493847 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($45,551,828 vs $21,945,441). 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 · LISKER, LISA

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Friends Of Steve Daines Authorized committee S
Ayotte-Daines Committee Joint fundraising S
Daines Senate Majority Fund Joint fundraising N
Daines Victory Committee Joint fundraising N
Daines-Zinke Victory Committee Joint fundraising N
Defend The Senate Joint fundraising N
Founders Senate Candidate Committee Joint fundraising N
Friends For An American Majority Joint fundraising S
Gardner Daines Sullivan Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Gop Victory Fund 2014 Joint fundraising N
Legacy Victory Committee 2014 Joint fundraising N
Tillis Cotton Sullivan Daines Victory Fund Joint fundraising S
Western States Victory Committee Joint fundraising S
Zinke Daines Victory Fund 2016 Joint fundraising N
Steve Daines For Montana Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $7,000 7 2018
Safari Club International Pac (Sci-Pac) $6,000 5 2018
Ctia - The Wireless Association Political Action Committee $4,000 4 2018
Southern Company Employees Pac $8,500 3 2018
T-Mobile Us, Inc. Political Action Committee (T-Pac) $5,000 3 2018
Teachers Insurance Annuity Association Of America Pac (Tiaa Pac) $4,000 3 2018
Aircraft Owners And Pilots Association Political Action Committee $2,500 3 2018
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Pac $4,000 3 2018
National Roofing Contractors Association Roof Pac $3,000 3 2018
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. $6,000 3 2018
At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) $4,000 3 2018
Bae Systems Inc. Political Action Committee (Bae Systems Usa Pac) $4,500 3 2018
Bp Corporation North America Inc. Political Action Committee (Bp North America Employee Pac) $5,000 3 2018
Citigroup Inc. Pac - Federal (Citi Pac - Federal) $4,000 3 2018
Hallmark Cards, Inc. Pac (Hallpac) $3,000 3 2018
Fmc Corporation Good Government Program $1,000 3 2018
Dla Piper Llp (Us) Political Action Committee (Dla Piper Pac) $1,000 3 2018
Boardwalk Gp Llc Public Affairs Committee (Boardwalk Public Affairs Committee) $2,500 2 2018
K&L Gates Llp Political Action Committee (Dc) $2,000 2 2018
Oshkosh Corporation Employees Pac (Ocepac) $5,000 2 2018
Employees Of Rtx Corporation Political Action Committee $2,500 2 2018
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. Federal Political Action Committee $2,000 2 2018
Transcanada Usa Services, Inc. Pac (Tc Pac) $3,500 2 2018
Leadership And Accountability Are National Keys Pac $10,000 2 2018
The Peter Norbeck Leadership Pac $10,000 2 2018

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

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Alaska Air Group Inc. Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Amazon.Com Services Llc Separate Segregated Fund (Amazon Pac) 50% / 50%
American Council Of Life Insurers Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Walgreen Co Pac (Walgreenspac) 50% / 50%
T-Mobile Us, Inc. Political Action Committee (T-Pac) 51% / 49%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%
Samsung Electronics America Inc Political Action Committee 52% / 48%
The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. Political Action Committee (Aotpac) 52% / 48%
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp Civic Action Committee (Aka Akin Gump Pac) 47% / 53%
Cencora, Inc. Pac 47% / 53%
American Council Of Engineering Companies (Acec/Pac) 46% / 54%
Toyota Motor North America, Inc Political Action Committee (Toyota/Lexus Pac) 46% / 54%

Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 0 committees · 0 expenditures · —  ·  Opposing: 1 · 2 · $862

CommitteeStanceAmount
Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund opposes $862

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

0% 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
Campaign Solutions $2,016,502 267
Winred $3,143,947 180
Fp1 Strategies $18,039,631 59
Ultra Graphics $91,256 53
Club For Growth $4,864 52
Connell Donatelli $4,543,938 49
Cmdi $68,662 44
Campaign Solutions $18,558 32
Valley Bank $27,350 28
Valley Bank $1,663 26
Campaign Solutions $185,720 26
Highwood Capital Llc $159,912 25

Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.

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