Women donors emerge as new power brokers in 2020 election as Democrats look to flip the Senate – By Maureen Groppe (USA Today) / Oct 25 2020
WASHINGTON – Record-high campaign contributions from women helped Democrats take the House in 2018 and now women have their sights set on the Senate.
In the 15 most competitive Senate races, an average 43% of the large-dollar donors to Democratic candidates are women compared to 28% of donors to Republicans, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Women are also setting a record for the total amount of money they’re contributing to all congressional candidates, according to the center.
Men have long been responsible for the majority of campaign contributions to congressional candidates.
Even in 1992’s “Year of the Woman” that increased the number of women in the House and Senate, only 26% of all congressional campaign contributions came from women.
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