THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Schmidt's contribution profile relies more heavily on individual donors, who account for 65 percent of his $2.6M in direct contributions, with PACs and committees making up the remaining 35 percent. Industry-tied money shows a distributed pattern across agriculture, legal and lobbying services, construction and engineering, health services, and commercial banking, each representing 8 to 15 percent of industry contributions; individual donors employed in law, agriculture, and banking comprise a similar sectoral range. With 57 recorded votes and no stock trade disclosures on file, his legislative activity record is available for public review alongside his contribution composition.
Raised · all cycles$2.6M#177 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share15%Agriculture
Donor-sector votes9on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Schmidt (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.
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How Schmidt voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 9 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Schmidt'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$218K
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION
PAC
2$60K
DEREK SCHMIDT VICTORY FUND
candidate's own committee
3$56K
KANSAS CONSERVATIVE FUND
PAC
4$48K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC
PAC
5$40K
C3
employees
COMMITTEES
Judiciary
Armed Services
Small Business
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Adrian Smith
R-NE · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
Trent Kelly
R-MS · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
D-GA · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Dusty Johnson
R-SD · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
James R. Baird
R-IN · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
W. Gregory Steube
R-FL · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering