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Bredesen, Philip

candidate · S8TN00386
Bredesen, Philip TN · DEM · Senate · TN · open-seat
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Person: Bredesen, Philip · every race, every cycle

cycle 20202018
2 cycles2 committees45 contributing committees99 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 · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Bredesen, Philip (this candidate) open-seat 45
MacKler, James open-seat 8

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
Blackburn, Marsha Mrs. open-seat 638
Corker, Robert P Jr. incumbent 165
Fincher, Stephen open-seat 14
Phillips, Robert Breton open-seat
Toyos, Rolando open-seat

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

TN

Bredesen, Philip ranks #35 of 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
35 Bredesen, Philip (this candidate) TN DEM $3,933,639

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.

Campaign contact

NASHVILLE, TN, 37215

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) 94% · PACs 6%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)63668$3,709,639
PACs64$224,000
Total (committee-sourced)$3,933,639

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 committees8$1,098,100
Total$1,098,100

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

17% by dollars

14853 of 25138 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) 89% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 11%

25138 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 63732 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($32,166,768 vs $3,933,639). 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 · LODGE, VIRGINIA T.

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Bredesen Victory Fund Joint fundraising N
Bredesen For Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $3,709,639 63,668 2018
Windem $10,800 4 2018
Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners $5,000 3 2018
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) $5,500 3 2018
MacHinists Non Partisan Political League Of The International Association Of MacHinists & Aerospace Workers $10,000 2 2018
Purpose Pac $10,000 2 2018
American Federation Of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E $10,000 2 2018
Victory Now Pac $10,000 2 2018
Follow The North Star Fund $10,000 2 2018
International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Campaign Assistance Fund $6,500 2 2018
M-Pac $10,000 2 2018
Dakota Prairie Pac $10,000 2 2018
United Mine Workers Of America - Coal Miners Political Action Committee $6,000 2 2018
Ullico Inc. Political Action Committee (Ullipac) $5,000 2 2018
Common Sense Colorado $10,000 2 2018
Green Mountain Pac $5,000 2 2018
Forward Together Pac $10,000 2 2018
Alston & Bird Pac $1,000 1 2018
Joint Action Committee For Political Affairs $5,000 1 2018
Duane Morris Government Committee $1,000 1 2018
American Federation Of Govt. Empl. Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
Rogers Group Inc. Political Action Committee $4,000 1 2018
United Steelworkers Political Action Fund $5,000 1 2018
Tennessee Bankers Association Federal Political Action Committee $2,000 1 2018
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz Pc Pac $2,700 1 2018

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 (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 63,668 of 63,732 contributions · 94% of dollars ($3,709,639).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$3,709,639

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

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Fs Pac 50% / 50%
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz Pc Pac 52% / 48%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%
Morgan Stanley Political Action Committee 46% / 54%
Alston & Bird Pac 55% / 45%
Animal Wellness Action Pac 55% / 45%
Citizens Organized Political Action Committee 56% / 44%
Tennessee Bankers Association Federal Political Action Committee 44% / 56%
The Council Of Insurance Agents & Brokers Political Action Committee 41% / 59%
Duane Morris Government Committee 63% / 37%
Environmental Defense Action Fund Pac (Edaf Pac) 78% / 22%
Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners 81% / 19%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 9 committees · 71 expenditures · $3,422,434  ·  Opposing: 16 · 166 · $20,340,735

CommitteeStanceAmount
Senate Leadership Fund opposes $13,299,859
Indivisible Project Inc. supports $1,311
National Association For Gun Rights Inc Pac opposes $519
Majority Forward supports $1,978,858
Committee To Defeat The (Last) President opposes $958,968
Women Speak Out Pac opposes $72,505
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund opposes $618,679
Blackpac supports $572,929
Usw Works supports $140,021
Nrsc opposes $1,527,731
Tennesseans For A Better Tomorrow opposes $943,010
Americas Pac opposes $157,236
Cfg Action Tennessee opposes $201,802
Faith Family Freedom Fund opposes $20,200
Americans For Prosperity opposes $2,076,823

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

86% 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
Stripe, Inc. $797 88
Adp, Llc $790,506 51
Actblue Technical Services $108,106 26
Buying Time, Llc $10,198,369 22
Democracy Engine Llc $4,833 21
Card Services Center $295,412 13
Rising Tide Interactive Llc $1,006,316 12
Aura Jets Llc $111,651 9
Authentic Campaigns, Inc. $287,500 9
Mvar Media, Llc $422,571 8
Ean Holdings Llc $13,617 7
First Data Merchant Services $125 7

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

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