The Billionaires who Made and Make Trump’s Presidency
28 October 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending-2026/top-donors
Top Donors to Outside Groups: Individuals, 2026 cycle
Rank
Donor Name
Total Contribution to Recipient Viewpoint
1
Musk, Elon
$368,675,885 to REPUBLICANS
2
Uihlein, Richard
$129,618,068 to REPUBLICANS
3
Yass, Jeff
$110,600,000 to REPUBLICANS
4
Adelson, Miriam
$66,097,500 to REPUBLICANS
5
Horowitz, Benjamin
$55,780,000 to REPUBLICANS
6
Singer, Paul
$48,712,400 to REPUBLICANS
7
Andreessen, Marc
$43,880,000 to REPUBLICANS
8
Griffin, Kenneth, C.
$32,000,000 to REPUBLICANS
9
Mandel, Stephen
$28,218,000 to DEMOCRATS
10
Bloomberg, Michael
$27,878,998 to DEMOCRATS
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Top 100 Donors Account for 61.4% of Contributions to Outside Groups, 2026 Cycle [I.e., billionaires control both Parties]
100 donors out of 1,220,232 total (0.008%) contributed $3.29B of $5.36B in tracked outside spending. [I.e., no more than 0.008% of donors dominate both Parties]
DONOR CATEGORY
RECIPIENT GROUP VIEWPOINT
Top 1% of Donors Account for 98.2% of Contributions to Outside Groups, 2026 Cycle
Top 1% of donors contributed $5.26B of $5.36B in tracked outside spending.
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TOTAL from the top 10 donors to each Party:
$1,293,775,453 to Republicans from those 8.
$56,096,998 to Democrats from those 2........
