In 1976, the Supreme Court struck down limits on candidates financing their own campaigns. Likewise, David Trone has donated $15 million to himself and Scott Wallace $12 million. So far, Cisneros and Gianforte have given $8.8 and $2.5 million respectively to their own campaigns, making their congressional bids some of the most expensive this cycle.
Ed Royce, and multimillionaire Greg Gianforte, who won a 2017 special election for Montana' at-large seat but is running again in 2018 in a tight race. Some House candidates are wealthy enough to mostly self-fund their campaigns, such as lottery winner Gil Cisneros in California's 39th congressional district, who is running to flip the open seat vacated by Rep. Jon Ossoff's bid to challenge Republican Karen Handel for a July 2017 special election in Georgia's 6th district gained national attention and a surge of out-of-state donations, making his race the most expensive the 2017-18 cycle with a total of $56 million raised between him and Handel. “We expected to see the numbers climb, as they typically do, but the astonishing spike in campaign donations is a solid indicator of the intensity driving this year’s campaigns,” Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said about the 2018 fundraising numbers.īefore the midterms even started, two high-profile special elections, one in Georgia's 6th congressional district and in Pennslyvannia's former 18th district, attracted record-high donations individual donations from Democrats looking to channel their frustration with Trump into congressional races. The Center for Responsive Politics projects that a staggering total of $5.2 billion will be spent in this year's midterms, breaking the previous record of $4.4 billion in 2016. Not only have this year's midterms garnered record-high levels of early voter turnout, but it's looking like they'll be the most expensive congressional elections in US history. The 2018 midterm elections are in just three days away, and the stakes couldn't be higher as Democrats seek to take back the House of Representatives and minimize Republican gains in the Senate, in the first congressional elections since President Donald Trump's victory in 2016.
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