Who is funding the U.S. midterms?

The elections are set to be the most expensive in U.S. history, with
spending on political advertising alone projected to reach $11.6 billion

BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO U.S. MIDTERM ELECTION FUNDING

Elon Musk: Technology entrepreneur

Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein: Packaging tycoons

One Nation: Nonprofit organisation

Jeff and Janine Yass: School-choice advocates

George Soros: Billionaire investor

Majority Forward: Nonprofit organisation

House Majority Forward
Nonprofit organisation

Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen
Technology investors

Mike Bloomberg: Entrepreneur
and former NYC mayor

Miriam Adelson
Physician and philanthropist

$446m
$150m
$133m
$110m
$102m
$102m
$93.7m
$92.2m
$84.2m
$67.6m

Elon Musk
Contribution of world’s richest
man is more than next three
donors combined

Top 50 donors
and organisations
have combined
contribution of
$2.77bn

Elon Musk’s share

$1.67bn
$832m
$264m

Republican aligned

Democratic aligned

Special interest
or bipartisan

Source: Al Jazeera
Picture: Getty Images
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