While the presidential race attracts the most attention, it doesn’t draw the biggest campaign contributions. Under federal law, a contributor can give a combined total of $65,500 per election cycle to the parties’ national committees and political action committees (PACs). And while donors can’t give more than $4,600 to a single congressional candidate, they can give to several hopefuls — up to a combined total of $42,700 per election cycle for House and Senate races.
The Democrats are well ahead in the contest for nonpresidential contributions from Fortune 100 legal chiefs, according to a Corporate Counsel review of Federal Election Commission data as posted by the Center for Responsive Politics. As of July 31, these elite legal chiefs had given a total of $232,475 to Democratic national and state committees, PACs, and congressional candidates, and $167,300 to Republicans.
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