Data show that those giving $10,000 or more have accounted for 76% of the California Republican Party’s fundraising since 2013. The small circle of donors who wrote checks for $100,000 or more — a few dozen people per election cycle — accounted for more than 36% of the money the party took in over the same period. Many of the most influential GOP donors have backed Patterson, as have most of California’s Republican state legislators and six of the party’s seven remaining House members.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2019 08:03 UTC