THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
McDowell's $2.0 million fundraising profile is balanced between PAC and committee contributions (40%) and individual donors (60%), with an additional $372,000 from party and leadership sources. Industry-tied donations concentrate in Lawyers & Lobbyists (19%), Construction & Engineering (13%), and Insurance (11%), with individual donors employed predominantly in legal, construction, and real estate sectors. With 59 recorded votes and no stock trade disclosures on file, McDowell's voting record remains limited in the available dataset.
Raised · all cycles$2.0M#192 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share19%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes8on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds McDowell (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How McDowell voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 8 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is McDowell's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$141K
RIGHT FOR NC
PAC
2$52K
HUNTER ACTION FUND (HAF)
PAC
3$37K
VETERANS GUARDIAN
employees
4$34K
WINKLEVOSS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
employees
5$27K
FLOW AUTOMOTIVE
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
COMMITTEES
Natural Resources
Transportation and Infrastructure
Budget
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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Nathaniel Moran
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Tina Smith
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Thom Tillis
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