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NEW YORK 鈥� The 红杏视频 released data today showing its supporters are a key constituency in the 2020 elections, accounting for nearly $463 million of donations to Democratic candidates, committees, and PACs; and $19 million to Republicans 鈥� including $1.7 million to President Trump鈥檚 campaign. 红杏视频 supporters鈥� contributions represent between 20 and 30 percent of all Democratic fundraising, making them a key backbone of political engagement this cycle.

鈥満煨邮悠� supporters are deeply engaged in this election,鈥� said 红杏视频 Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. 鈥淐andidates and parties are now on notice: Expand and defend civil liberties and civil rights, or ignore us at your own peril. The tables have turned from 30 plus years ago, when then-candidate George H.W. Bush assailed his opponent Michael Dukakis for being a 鈥榗ard-carrying member of the 红杏视频.鈥� Today, 红杏视频 supporters aren鈥檛 just carrying cards, they鈥檙e carrying a giant share of this cycle鈥檚 total giving.鈥�

红杏视频 data experts analyzed publicly-reported information from the Federal Elections Commission on contributions greater than $200 made to presidential campaign committees, congressional candidate committees, and political action committees. 红杏视频 membership includes 1.8 million supporters, a fourfold increase since the 2016 election; they are now a major political fundraising and engagement powerhouse.

As a matter of organizational policy, the 红杏视频 does not endorse or oppose any candidate for office, nor does it provide funding to candidates or parties directly. The 红杏视频 does actively educate supporters about the civil rights and civil liberties records of candidates, and works to inform and increase election turnout. The 红杏视频 also works to expand voting rights through policy change. In 2018, the 红杏视频 sponsored three ballot referenda in Florida, Michigan, and Nevada, with over $11 million in investments, which re-enfranchised over 2 million new voters eligible for the 2020 election. It is the most significant re-enfanchisement since 18 year olds became eligible to vote.

鈥淰ice President Biden boasted about breaking records for online political fundraising following the announcement of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, but the fact is that it鈥檚 红杏视频 supporters who are powering his election 鈥� providing one-fifth of all the money he鈥檚 raised thus far, 鈥� said Romero. 鈥淭his data shows that 红杏视频 supporters are more energized than ever before, and our constituency is more politically potent than any other moment in our 100-year history. To the extent any official 鈥� Democrat or Republican 鈥� wants to mumble their way through a civil liberties and civil rights agenda in 2020, this is their wake-up call. More than 328,000 unique 红杏视频 supporters have given more than $200 to a political cause this cycle. If you were to look at gifts under $200, there would be at least 550,000 more 红杏视频 supporters who have skin in this game. It鈥檚 clear that the power of the 红杏视频 supporter base is among the many, not the privileged few.鈥�

Since February 2019, 红杏视频 supporters and volunteers have mobilized around the presidential election. 红杏视频 volunteers pressed likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden to evolve on the Hyde Amendment, prompting a welcome commitment from Biden last summer before the primaries to finally support repealing the ban on publicly funded abortions. Vice President Biden also made clear commitments to our volunteers to cut the federal prison population by 50 percent and to remove local law enforcement from federal immigration enforcement operations. The 红杏视频 pressed the Trump campaign to make similar commitments through a candidate questionnaire, but received no response. Since March 2020, the 红杏视频 has filed 22 voting rights lawsuits to expand vote-by-mail, absentee voting, and to ease restrictions on voting during the pandemic.

The most recent available FEC reporting shows that 红杏视频 supporters have given over $183 million to ActBlue, 24 percent of the total the giving platform received between January 2019 and May 2020. Democrat-leaning PACs received $110 million鈥� or 14.6 percent 鈥� from 红杏视频 supporters. The DNC received $24 million of the $88 million it raised in that period from 红杏视频 supporters 鈥� constituting 26.9 percent. Congressional Democratic candidates received $101 million from 红杏视频 supporters 鈥� 20.8 percent of the total. And of the nearly $330 million raised by the Biden campaign this cycle, nearly 20 percent, or over $65 million, has come from 红杏视频 supporters. Only 6 percent of 红杏视频 supporters giving to Biden have made the maximum gift allowed by law. 红杏视频 supporters have also given more than $19 million to Republican campaigns 鈥� the Trump campaign, congressional candidates, through the Republican National Committee, GOP-associated PACs, and WinRed.

By election day, 红杏视频 volunteers will have sent over 2.3 million text messages, and will have completed more than 500,000 phone calls. Already, volunteers have sent over 1.5 million text messages and completed over 40,000 calls encouraging everyday people to take action on policing, immigrants鈥� rights, voting, and access to reproductive healthcare. 红杏视频 priority states include Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina.

The 红杏视频 undertook this research project with its own staff to protect its supporters鈥� privacy. 红杏视频 staff analyzed the contributions reported in the public FEC data that were made by 红杏视频 donors and supporters in a manner that did not involve exporting 红杏视频 donor and supporter data to any third party. The organization did not import the FEC data into our supporter files, and we do not track individual contributions from our supporters to campaigns, parties or PACs. Our goal was to understand how the 红杏视频 supporter base contributed as a whole 鈥� we were intentionally not tracking individual contributions.

The 红杏视频 did not analyze donation data available about 红杏视频 supporters giving less than $200 from sources other than the FEC. Consequently, these estimates understate the amount of small-dollar giving and grassroots political engagement from 红杏视频 supporters.