Donald Trump has recently become fixated on his party’s biggest donors. Those donors don’t yet appear to be fixated on him.
All but a small few of the leading Republican megadonors steered clear of giving to Trump in 2023, as Trump’s primary challengers jockeyed for the attention of GOP voters. Of the 10 biggest Republican donors during the 2022 midterms, two gave to the main super PAC backing Trump between July and December of last year, a NOTUS analysis of new campaign finance filings found.
Several of the GOP’s biggest donors opted to test the waters with other candidates during the months leading up to the Iowa caucuses, before the former president notched decisive victories that put him on the path to becoming the party’s third-time nominee.