This article by By Katherine Huggins is published by Open Secrets. Here is an excerpt:

Candidates vying for House and Senate seats in the upcoming midterm elections poured over $100 million of their own money into self-funding congressional campaigns in 2021 — and state candidates gave millions more, a new OpenSecrets analysis found.

During the first year of this election cycle, six House candidates and 13 Senate candidates gave $1 million or more to their campaigns. Five of those candidates spent at least $5 million of their own money self-funding their campaigns over the course of the year.

The majority of 2021’s self-funding candidates are Republican. According to OpenSecrets data, Republicans last year self-funded $85.6 million, compared to Democrats’ self-funding $22.7 million.

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