Person: Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'Rourke, Robert (Beto) | challenger | — | 10 |
REP · primary contest (3 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted (this candidate) | incumbent | — | 511 | ||||
| De Stefano, Stefano | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Jacobson Jr., Bruce | challenger | — | — |
IND · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bible, Carl Alexander | challenger | — | — | ||||
| Jenkins, Jonathan | challenger | — | — |
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dikeman, Neal Monroe | 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.
Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted ranks #28 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 |
| 28 | Cruz, Rafael Edward Ted (this candidate) | TX | REP | $6,321,072 |
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.
HOUSTON, TX, 77265
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.
● PACs 88% · ● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 8% · ● Party committees 2% · ● Super PACs 1%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PACs | 2777 | $5,054,046 |
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 18841 | $479,268 |
| Party committees | 2 | $105,600 |
| Super PACs | 42 | $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.
| Payer type | Transfers | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Joint-fundraising committees | 90 | $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.
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.
● 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.
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 · KNIPPA, BRADLEY SCOTT
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:
Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).
30 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
Supporting: 19 committees · 327 expenditures · $905,180 · Opposing: 21 · 196 · $3,119,159
| Committee | Stance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Senate Conservatives Fund | supports | $311,076 |
| Ixnay Pac | opposes | $2,518 |
| Working Assets Funding Service | opposes | $63,826 |
| Vigop (Virgin Islands Republican Party) | supports | $150,469 |
| Ftc Pac | opposes | $238,900 |
| Club For Growth Pac | supports | $33,286 |
| Progress Texas | opposes | $9,878 |
| Hispanic Victory Pac | supports | $40,489 |
| Texans Are | supports | $144,283 |
| Williamson County Republican Party Federal Pac | supports | $9,822 |
| Revive America Pac | supports | $45,000 |
| Lcv Victory Fund | opposes | $4,602 |
| Moveon.Org Political Action | opposes | $12,950 |
| Texas Right To Life Committee Inc | supports | $17,672 |
| Texas Patriots Pac | supports | $8,846 |
Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).
41% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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