California donors have funded both sides of Democrats' primary battles
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Set us as preferred WASHINGTON — California is sometimes described as the ATM of Democratic politics.That’s certainly been the case in the most divisive Democratic races this year.Donors from California have given more to far-left candidates and their moderate opponents in congressional races and U.S.Senate contests than donors from any other state — more than $17 million combined, according to a Times analysis of the most recently available campaign finance filings.More of that money — nearly $11 million — went to more progressive candidates.
That giving came from more than 95,000 individual donors, which was more than double the number of California donors who gave to their more moderate opponents.That includes 18,000 donors who gave to both progressive and moderate candidates.There was a geographic divide in giving by Californians.
The largest share of cash to progressive candidates came from donors in the Bay Area, while the largest share of financial backing to moderate candidates came from donors in the Los Angeles area.The Times looked at competitive races outside California in which one of the candidates had been endorsed by either the Justice Democrats or the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, as well as key Senate races in Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Maine that featured a stark ideological divide between top Democratic contenders.Although these races represent a small fraction of the electoral contests across the country, they were the races in which the future ideological direction of the Democratic Party was most fiercely contested.World & Nation Maine Democrats are calling for Republican Sen.
Susan Collins to account for a report that alleged she was the target of a federal investigation over campaign contributionsProgressive candidates fared better in the majority of these contests.C...