Meet the megadonors pumping over $2.5 billion into the election

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Meet the megadonors pumping over $2.5 billion into the election

By Clara Ence Morse, Luis Melgar and Maeve Reston
Updated October 28, 2024

The 50 biggest donors this cycle have collectively donated over $2.5 billion into political committees and other groups competing in the election, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

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Clara Ence Morse
Clara Ence Morse is a political data reporter at The Washington Post. She joined The Post as the Investigative Reporting Workshop intern with the Data team, and previously served as the editor in chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator. She lives in Washington, D.C.@ccemorse

Luis Melgar
Luis Melgar is a graphics reporter at The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2022, he was a graphics developer at the Urban Institute.

Maeve Reston
Maeve Reston is a national political reporter for The Washington Post covering the 2024 presidential race and the politics of the West. She joined The Post in 2023 after covering politics and five presidential campaigns at CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Austin American-Statesman. @MaeveReston

[jimfields33]

1. Absolutely ridiculous.

The billionaires are trying to buy the election. And for a 400K job!

I’ve always believed that a limit on the amount a candidate could spend should be equal or less than the annual salary of the job.

[mitch96]

2. paywall, email skim...nt

[slightlv]

3. This is NOT right.

If money is free speech, then everyone should be given "x" amount of money to use as political speech, to be used as they see fit. Our voices are drowned out to nothing by all the billionaires and millionaires. This country hasn't seen a populace uprising like the one that will come when all the "normal" people are sick and tired of being tossed aside and counted as nothing because we don't have 10 million to throw at a judge or a politician.