Ohio U.S. Senate (special election) — 2026 General Election: All Funding

7.1 — Race summary

Every cell to the dollar. Raised / Spent / Cash on hand are each campaign's cycle-to-date FEC totals (they include primary-period activity — note); the three outside-money columns count only independent expenditures disseminated after primary day. "Grand total benefiting" = a candidate's own campaign disbursements + total outside spending benefiting that candidate. Receipts and expenditures are never added into a single figure. Attribution rule.

7.2 — Charts

Donuts are computed server-side from the same snapshot figures shown in each accompanying table; chart and table cannot disagree.

7.3 — Outside spending by committee

Every filer found by the candidate-level Schedule E pull is listed, not only the verified super PACs. Committee names link to their FEC pages. Spending that opposes one candidate is counted as benefiting the other. Attribution rule. General-election rows only (disseminated after primary day); spending disseminated on or before primary day is listed in the appendix, §7.15.

7.4 — Outside spending by purpose category

Purpose categories are assigned from each expenditure's FEC description using a fixed keyword map. Unclassified share: 3.2%.

7.5 — Super PAC donors

One table per verified super PAC active in the general-election window (§7.3), largest spender first. Committees are added here once their spending appears in the two-way ledger.

7.6 — Campaign fundraising composition

Individual contributions combine itemized and small-dollar (unitemized) receipts as reported in each committee's FEC totals. Figures are cycle-to-date for each principal campaign committee (the FEC summary file does not separate primary-period from general-election receipts). Transfers from authorized committees are shown as their own labeled row and are not buried in totals.

7.7 — Campaign spending by category

Buckets are assigned from each disbursement's FEC purpose description using the same keyword map applied to outside spending. Cycle-to-date for each principal campaign committee.

7.8 — PACs giving directly to each campaign

Cash and in-kind contributions from PACs and other political committees to each campaign, cycle-to-date (FEC transaction types 24K and 24Z in the committee-to-candidate bulk file, memo entries excluded). The candidate's own authorized committees are left out — their transfers are the "transfers from authorized committees" line in §7.6. Independent expenditures (types 24A/24E) are never counted here; they appear only in the §7.3 ledger.

Also in this FEC file, shown elsewhere on this page

• $9,525,674 of independent expenditures (types 24E for, 24A against) — outside spending: rows disseminated after primary day are in the §7.3 ledger and the totals above, primary-period rows are in the §7.15 appendix. $34,478 of it, from 9 committee(s) that report IEs only on their regular reports and never appear in the FEC independent-expenditure file, was added from this file so it is not lost ($5,086 in the general-election ledger and totals; $29,392 in the §7.15 appendix (primary period)).
• $1,169,873 of coordinated party expenditures (type 24C) — listed in the coordinated-party table below.

Coordinated party expenditures

Spending by a party committee made in coordination with the campaign (FEC transaction type 24C). It is neither a contribution to the campaign nor independent spending, so it is shown on its own line and is not included in any total above.

7.9 — Earmarked contributions via conduits

Both campaigns are checked the same way against AIPAC PAC's own itemized receipts (each earmark names the recipient committee). AIPAC PAC reports disclosed through August 31, 2026. This is an overlay statistic showing the conduit path of money already counted in §7.6 receipts; it is not added to any other total. AIPAC PAC contributions earmarked to a candidate pass through the traditional PAC as a conduit. ActBlue is a payment processor, mechanically different from an ideological bundler; no ActBlue conduit activity was observed in the current filings.

7.9b — AIPAC PAC-network donors among itemized contributors