Nov 26, 2019 · A source says Bloomberg donated $38 million as part of Everytown’s combined $106 million haul last year. The total represents nearly double what it raises in 2017. The NRA, by comparison, raises ...
Aug 09, 2016 · — CNN, The Money Powering the NRA. Comparing donations to political candidates in the 2014 congressional cycle, last full cycle. Michael Bloomberg: $28,552,009 (As the quote above indicates, this is about one-third the money that the NRA Political Victory Fund has received since 2005. While gun control was by far the major motivator for Bloomberg’s …
The massive haul was a $30 million increase from the group’s 2015 fundraising effort. It was helped by a single donation of $19.2 million in 2016. The filing lists the source of that massive ...
General contributions shot up sharply, however, rising from $96.6 million in 2015 to $127.8 million in 2016 — around one-third of the NRA’s $378 million in annual revenue. The NRA’s nonprofit status exempts it from limits on individual and corporate donations, and it is not required to list who contributed or how much.
National Rifle Association Chris W. Cox, helps introduce President Donald J. Trump at the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum in April 2017. Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
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In 2016, the NRA spent more than $30 million on behalf of the Trump campaign, according to Federal Election Commission data. It was a staggering number compared to 2012, when the group spent about $13 million to try to unseat President Barack Obama and elect Mitt Romney.
An FEC investigation into another McClatchy report of whether the former Russian central banker, Alexander Torshin, illegally funneled money to the NRA to aid Trump, has been dropped by the FEC after Republican members objected to it.
That is, at least, what the NRA is hoping. On August 21, the group tweeted about an "extreme" gun control plan by Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. On August 20, the group posted a tweet from LaPierre in support of Trump: "I spoke to the president today.
August 21, 2019 12:42 PM PDT. President Donald Trump has remained vague and cool in public on the idea of pursuing background check legislation in Congress in recent days, after a call with National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre.
The dollar totals in this tracker reflect independent expenditures made by three organizations controlled by the National Rifle Association: the Political Victory Fund, a PAC; the Institute for Legislative Action, the NRA's lobbying arm; and the NRA Victory Fund, a newly created super PAC.
After allegedly abusing its nonprofit status for years through lavish spending on executives and vendors, the NRA is now facing a lawsuit from the New York attorney general that aims to dissolve the organization.
In the last frenzied days before the election, the campaigns spent at prodigious rates fighting for every vote and making their final pitches to the American people. The fundraising continued as well—even after the election.
In the final weeks of the race, the campaigns burned through their stockpiles of cash. Trump increased his spending on television and cable ads, but his digital strategy may have been decisive. A Trump campaign official said they targeted specific groups of Clinton backers with negative ads on social media to lower Democratic turnout.
While Trump was the biggest single donor to his own cause, his small donor fundraising operation was his biggest source of campaign cash. Clinton had an aggressive small-dollar donor operation as well, but her biggest source was larger donations, many of which came via the networks of her hundreds of bundlers.
After trailing most of the cycle, the Democratic National Committee ended up outraising its GOP counterpart, but the Republican National Committee's strategy of building a permanent get-out-the-vote infrastructure in battleground states paid off for Trump, who often feuded with the party's leaders.
The biggest spenders backing Democratic candidates, including progressive billionaires and labor unions, have given generously to super-PACs backing Clinton, with 50 donors who've given $1 million or more.