Will The Big Self-Funders Win Today?

Many of the most egregious self-funders this cycle lost their primaries, like Democrats Herbert Lee (CA- $1,057,942), Alison Friedman (VA- $1,080,365), Hans Keirstead (CA- $1,080,400), David Kim (GA- $1,164,689), Jerome Segal (MD- $1,271,189), Tahir Javed (TX- $1,333,416), Sara Jacobs (CA- $2,117,987), Andy Thorburn (CA- $2,832,018) and Paul Kerr (CA- $5,912,728), as well as Republicans Troy Downing (MT- $1,100,000), Peter deNeufville (NJ- $1,238,165), Bob Corlew (TN- $1,496,153), David Dodson (WY- $1,643,784), Mike Gibbons (OH- $2,690,226), George Flinn Jr. (TN- $3,068,270), Don Blankenship (WV- $4,107,710), Sandy Pensler (MI- $5,009,578), John Kingston (MA- $5,188,265), and Kathaleen Wall (TX- $6,169,732).

Don't you love to see plutocrats waste millions of their own dollars on campaigns and fall flat on their faces. Today there are 18 candidates running who have already spent at least a million dollars of their own on their campaigns. Some will win and some will lose. Here are the ones still in the running, in order of how much they had put in by last month.

• Florida Senate- Rick Scott (R)- $51,028,228 (45%) WON
• New Jersey Senate- Bob Hugin (R)- $27,500,000 (30%) LOST
• MD-06- David Trone (D)- $15,983,172 (100%) WON
• PA-01- Scott Wallace (D)- $12,756,892 (55%) LOST
• Indiana Senate- Mike Braun (R)- $9,614,377 (49%) WON
• CA-39- Gil Cisernos (D)- $8,852,762 (60%) LOST
• Tennessee Senate- Phil Bredesen (D)- $5,516,942 (50%) LOST
• California Senate- Dianne Feinstein (D)- $5,006,050 (90%) WON
• Massachusetts Senate- Shiva Ayyadurai (I)- $4,805,464 (1%) LOST
• Ohio Senate- Jim Renacci (R)- $4,000,000 (25%) LOST
• IN-02- Mel Hall (Blue Dog)- $2,522,000 (10%) LOST
• TX-03- Van Taylor (R)- $2,136,908 (99%) WON
• NY-01- Perry Gershon (D)- $1,843,746 (25%) LOST
• PA-08- John Chrin (R)- $1,622,762 (10%) LOST
• Minnesota Senate- Jerry Trooien (I)- $1,591,000 (1%) LOST
• NJ-03- Thomas MacArthur (R)- $1,400,000 (45%) ?
• PA-09- Dan Meuser (R)- $1,161,442 (99%) WON
• CA-48- Harley Rouda (D)- $1,138,955 (60%) WON

That percentage next to each name is my own handicapping-- not the actual scores, but the chance the candidate has to win for all that money. We'll see later how many candidates have been able to buy seats in Congress.

[NOTE: As you can see, I've updated the list to show who won and who lost. NJ-03 is too close to call right now, although MacArthur is leading narrowly.]