THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Derek Schmidt's 2.6 million dollars in contributions lean toward individual donors, who account for 65 percent of his funding, while PACs and committees provide 35 percent, with an additional 504 thousand dollars from party and leadership sources. Industry-tied contributions show modest concentration in agriculture (15 percent), lawyers and lobbyists (10 percent), construction and engineering (9 percent), commercial banking (8 percent), and health services (8 percent), with individual donors employed in law, agriculture, and banking representing a consistent subset of his donor base. Schmidt's voting record spans 59 recorded votes with no stock trade disclosures on file.
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.
Trent Kelly
R-MS · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
Adrian Smith
R-NE · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
D-GA · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsCommercial Banks
Dusty Johnson
R-SD · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
James R. Baird
R-IN · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
Mark Harris
R-NC · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering