Which super PACs did Stewart Bainum Jr. fund in 2020?

Unite the Country ($2.0M), DSCC ($35K), DCCC ($29K).

Which candidates did Stewart Bainum Jr.'s money end up backing or attacking in 2020?

for Joe Biden (President, about $875K, won); for Joe Biden (President, about $613K, won); against Donald Trump (President, about $42K, lost). Amounts are the donor's share of each group's spending.

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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.

Backed winners

Stewart Bainum Jr. gave $2.1M to super PACs and other outside groups in the 2020 federal elections, and 100% of it helped Democrats (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Among dollars with a matched election-stage result, 96% were on the winning side ($1.5M won, $57K lost). $0 had no matched result and is excluded.

Gave to outside spenders

$2.1M

100% of it helped Democrats

Winning share of scored dollars

96%

$1.6M scored (76% of gifts)

Spent on the losing side

$57K

Not allocated or result unknown

$503K

$503K not allocated to tracked outside spending; $0 has no matched result. Neither is cash on hand.

Where the checks went

A person writing checks 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 check 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

Group	Gave	Won / lost
Unite the Country $456K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$2.0M	$1.5M / $42K
DSCC $25K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$35K	$2K / $9K
DCCC $22K not allocated to tracked outside spending	$29K	$1K / $6K

The trail

What the money bought

The candidates Stewart Bainum Jr.'s money was spent for or against, pro-rated by Stewart Bainum Jr.'s share of each group's funding.

Candidate	Race	Spending	Their share	Paid off?
Joe Biden	President	Supporting	$875K	✓ Yes
Joe Biden	President (primary)	Supporting	$613K	✓ Yes
Donald Trump	President (primary)	Attacking	$42K	✗ No
Donald Trump	President	Attacking	$14K	✓ Yes
Joni Ernst	Iowa Senate	Attacking	$3K	✗ No
Thom Tilllis	North Carolina Senate	Attacking	$3K	✗ No
Steve Daines	Montana Senate	Attacking	$2K	✗ No
Martha McSally	Arizona Senate	Attacking	$735	✓ Yes
Susan Margaret Collins	Maine Senate	Attacking	$525	✗ No
Kelly Loeffler	Georgia Senate (special)	Attacking	$434	✓ Yes
David A. Perdue	Georgia Senate	Attacking	$434	✓ Yes
Mike Garcia	California 25th District	Attacking	$307	✗ No

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, and 100% of it helped Democrats (FEC filings with varying coverage dates; the most common larger-campaign cutoff is Dec 31, 2020). Among dollars with a matched election-stage result, 96% were on the winning side ($1.5M won, $57K lost). $0 had no matched result and is excluded.
Which super PACs did Stewart Bainum Jr. fund in 2020?: Unite the Country ($2.0M), DSCC ($35K), DCCC ($29K).
Which candidates did Stewart Bainum Jr.'s money end up backing or attacking in 2020?: for Joe Biden (President, about $875K, won); for Joe Biden (President, about $613K, won); against Donald Trump (President, about $42K, lost). Amounts are the donor's share of each group's spending.