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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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Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted

candidate · S2TX00312
Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted TX · REP · Senate · TX · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted · every race, every cycle

8 cycles9 committees3 contributing committees625 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 the 2016 Senate field

TX

473 Senate candidates nationally in 2016.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Fetterman, John Karl PA DEM $60,730,598
2 Cortez Masto, Catherine NV DEM $59,540,356
3 Hassan, Margaret Wood NH DEM $35,587,066
4 Bennet, Michael F. CO DEM $17,127,591
5 Duckworth, L. Tammy IL DEM $14,884,078
6 Schumer, Charles E. NY DEM $13,811,846
7 Murray, Patty WA DEM $12,048,061
8 Harris, Kamala D CA DEM $11,824,890

The national Senate field for 2016, 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

HOUSTON, TX, 77265

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

PACs 88% · Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 8% · Party committees 2% · Super PACs 1%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs2777$5,054,046
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)18841$479,268
Party committees2$105,600
Super PACs42$75,313
Total (committee-sourced)$5,714,227

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 committees90$9,780,818
Total$9,780,818

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

33% by dollars

760664 of 1398868 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) 96% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 4%

1398868 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 21662 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($150,601,668 vs $5,714,227). 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 · KNIPPA, BRADLEY SCOTT

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
2018 Senators Classic Committee Joint fundraising S
Cruz Victory Committee Joint fundraising N
Founders Committee; The Joint fundraising S
In Defense Of Free Speech Jfc Joint fundraising S
Lee Cruz Massie & Schweikert Victory Committee Joint fundraising N
Lee Cruz Victory Committee Joint fundraising S
Ted Cruz Victory Committee Joint fundraising N
United For A Senate Majority Joint fundraising S
Ted Cruz For Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2016:

No committee contributions on file for this cycle.

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Dyncorp International Llc Political Action Committee (Dipac) 50% / 50%
National Association Of Realtors Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
National Confectioners Association Of The United States, Inc. Political Action Committee (Candy Pac) 50% / 50%
K&L Gates Llp Political Action Committee (Dc) 51% / 49%
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Pac 51% / 49%
Sempra Energy Employees Political Action Committee- Federal 49% / 51%
T-Mobile Us, Inc. Political Action Committee (T-Pac) 51% / 49%
Ctia - The Wireless Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%
Samsung Electronics America Inc Political Action Committee 52% / 48%
American Optometric Association Political Action Committee 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: 32 committees · 997 expenditures · $9,507,725  ·  Opposing: 45 · 280 · $5,976,091

CommitteeStanceAmount
Red Senate supports $785,101
Senate Conservatives Fund supports $928,375
Senate Conservatives Fund supports $311,076
Working Assets Funding Service opposes $63,826
Ixnay Pac opposes $2,518
Vigop (Virgin Islands Republican Party) supports $150,469
Ftc Pac opposes $238,900
Club For Growth Pac supports $55,291
Club For Growth Pac supports $33,286
Truth And Courage Pac supports $3,864,738
Senate Conservatives Action supports $134,789
Really American Pac opposes $23,576
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund supports $66,706
Progress Texas opposes $9,878
Defeat By Tweet opposes $3,200

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

73% 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
Anedot $280,422 429
Anedot $1,104,726 379
Anedot $657,790 238
Usps $46,545 185
Winred Technical Services Llc $7,408,383 128
Winred Technical Services Llc $1,257,187 98
Usps $9,830 92
Anedot $1,501,301 81
Harker, Gray $211,709 66
Insperity $51,255 64
Loyola, Beatriz $128,936 64
Little, William $310,723 64

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

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