War Chests Built Elsewhere: Out-of-State Money Floods U.S. Senate Races
Candidates in several competitive Senate contests are filling their coffers with donations from outside their states, and the pitch to those donors is reportedly not the same one voters hear at home.
In several competitive U.S. Senate contests, candidates built large campaign war chests with out-of-state donations, according to NPR. For voters who believe a senator should answer first to the people who live in the state, that is a picture of a race being financed from somewhere else.
NPR also reports that the messages sent to out-of-state donors are very different from the message delivered back at home. Critics of the money-first campaign will see in that gap a reminder that the people paying are not always the people being courted.
Al Jazeera reports in a headline that megadonors are financing U.S. midterm campaigns in order to influence policy, and it asks who the groups funding those campaigns are and what they hope to influence. For many voters, the questions themselves are the story: who is putting up the money, and what do they expect in return?
Original reporting
NPR
Senate candidates built up massive campaign war chests with out-of-state donations
In several competitive U.S. Senate contests, candidates have built healthy campaign accounts with out-of-state donations. But the messages to those donors is very different from the one back at home.
Read the original →Al Jazeera
The megadonors financing the US midterms to influence policy
Who are the groups funding the US midterm campaigns and what are they hoping to influence?
Read the original →
Facts this version was allowed to use
- NPR
- Al Jazeera
- U.S. Senate
- United States
- NPR reports that candidates in several competitive U.S. Senate contests built large campaign war chests with out-of-state donations.
- NPR reports that the messages to out-of-state donors are very different from the message back at home.
- Al Jazeera reports in a headline that megadonors are financing U.S. midterm campaigns to influence policy.
- Al Jazeera asks who the groups funding U.S. midterm campaigns are and what they hope to influence.
Loading comments…
The daily briefing
The day's ten most-covered stories through the lens, every morning, each linked to its original reporting.
Reader comments
Written by readers: not by Lens, its AI or the outlets it credits. Comments are screened before they show. Community rules
Sign in to join the conversation.
No comments yet.