Thread by @MichaelCarterSC

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Matthew 6:21): Here's a breakdown of where the SC-01 candidates are getting their money:
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(note: all totals are smaller than reported totals - these analyses are based on only the itemized receipts immediately available from FEC data. More analysis to come later)
(2/16)

First: small vs. large donors. @JoeCunninghamSC received more donations than @karringtonsc at every price range (except >2700, since only PACs can give at that level)
(3/16)

But the main difference between the candidates is in their small dollar donors. Joe pulled in 891 donations smaller than $100 in Q3. Katie went from 1 donation in Q2 to…4.
(4/16)

Overall, the average contribution to Joe Cunningham's campaign was $352. The average contribution to Arrington was $1,702.
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Now let's investigate PAC money. Joe has made a big deal of taking no money from PACs - "not a single dollar, not a single dime." Arrington, on the other hand, has taken over $200,000 in total from them, including these ones:
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In case you missed it: there's the oil lobby, the gun lobby, the health insurance lobby, the pro-tariff lobby, Big Pharma, and payday lenders. That's the company she keeps.
(7/16)

All that PAC money makes up over a third of her total raise this quarter. So comparing just individual donors, Joe raised double what she did in Q3 from five times as many individual contributors. (1,951 to 350)
(8/16)

Here's a @karringtonsc claim we should investigate: apparently, Joe Cunningham is funded by "D.C. Democrats," Northeastern liberals, and out of state meddlers. But...
(9/16)

...@karringtonsc received $2,000 more than @JoeCunninghamSC in direct contributions from other campaigns - and then she accepted an extra $46,500 from candidate-affiliated PACs.
(10/16 - chart repeated for reference)

Combined, that's over $64,000 from career politicians and the D.C. elite in Q3 alone - compared to Joe's $14,500.
(Sorry for the low quality on this chart - it was difficult fitting them all into one screenshot.)
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How about where in the U.S. their donations came from? Katie and her team like to claim that Joe is funded by out-of-state liberal interests, not locals.

https://twitter.com/EmmaScottSC/status/1051481920482279425

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Arrington, however, took in more money from out of state in every single respect. Almost half of her raise was from out of state, compared to not even a third of Joe's. And despite her total raise being far lower, she took more in raw $ amount than Joe - by over $20,000.
(13/16)

Not including her $250,000 in self-funding, for obvious reasons, over 40% of everything she's raised came from out of state. In Q2, out-of-state money was more than half of her incoming funds.
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So to recap: @karringtonsc accepted quadruple the career politician money. She took way more money from out of state - nearly half of her total. Her small-dollar donor base is nonexistent. And her PAC contributions come from guns, oil, insurance, and payday lenders.
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To repeat @JoeCunninghamSC's line from the debate: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Joe's treasure is with local, individual small-dollar donors. Katie's is with career politicians, plutocrats, lobbyists, and out-of-state donors. Period.
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