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Stewart Bainum Jr.

Individual

Chairman, Choice Hotels · Maryland

3 reported gifts; 3 recipient groups listed, as reported to the FEC by the groups that received them.

Attribution unavailable

Stewart Bainum Jr. gave $2.1M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Historical gift amounts are retained; outcome estimates are unavailable pending a source rebuild.

Historical gift amounts are retained from the earlier snapshot. Outcome and party estimates are unavailable until the underlying donor records are rebuilt and checked.

Gave to outside spenders

$2.1M

Winning share of scored dollars

–

$0 scored (0% of gifts)

Spent on the losing side

$0

Not allocated or result unknown

$2.1M

$0 not allocated to tracked outside spending; $2.1M has no matched result. Neither is cash on hand.

Where the cheques went

A person writing cheques from their own fortune. Each gift is split the way the group that received it split its spending between winners and losers, so a $10M cheque to a group that spent 80% on losers counts as $8M on the losing side.
✓ Backed the winner or attacked the loser ✗ Backed the loser or attacked the winner Result not matched
GroupGaveHow the group spent itWon / lost
Unite the Country$2.0M
$0 / $0
DSCC$35K
$0 / $0
DCCC$29K
$0 / $0

Individual as classified from the FEC entity type and public reporting.

Questions people ask

How much did Stewart Bainum Jr. spend on the 2020 elections, and did it win?
Stewart Bainum Jr. gave $2.1M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Historical gift amounts are retained; outcome estimates are unavailable pending a source rebuild.
Which super PACs did Stewart Bainum Jr. fund in 2020?
Unite the Country ($2.0M), DSCC ($35K), DCCC ($29K).