New Fairfielders donate $14.5K to Trump campaign, $3K to Biden
NEW FAIRFIELD — If the amount of money donated by New Fairfield residents determined the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump would serve a second term.
According to Federal Election Commission data on presidential campaign contributions, New Fairfield residents have contributed around $34,740 to presidential campaigns since January 2019.
Nineteen residents donated $14,545 to Trump’s campaign, while nine have contributed $3,106 to Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s campaign.
New Fairfielders donated the following amounts to the following Democratic candidates, who have since suspended their campaigns:
⏩ Bernie Sanders: $6,776
⏩ Amy Klobuchar: $4,218
⏩ Elizabeth Warren: $3,402
⏩ Kamala Harris: $1,105
⏩ Andrew Yang: $956
⏩ Pete Buttigieg: $634
Sherman
If the outcome of the race between Trump and Biden came down to who received more campaign contributions from residents in the neighboring town of Sherman, it would be a close call — but the winner would be Biden.
According to FEC filings data, seven Sherman residents contributed a total of $1,883 to the Biden campaign, while four residents gave close to $1,189 to the Trump campaign.
A total of 28 Sherman residents have contributed roughly $13,130 to eight different presidential campaigns since March 2019, according to the FEC data.
More than $4,100 of those contributions went to Sanders’ campaign before he dropped out of the race in April.
Klobuchar’s campaign received
$2,800 in contribution from one Sherman resident, five people in town gave approximately $2,400 to Buttigieg and three donated nearly $475 to Warren’s campaign.
One Sherman resident contributed approximately $154 and $57, respectively, to the campaigns of Democratic candidates Cory Booker and Mike Bloomberg before they dropped out of the race.
There were no contributions made by Sherman residents to the Harris or Yang campaigns, according to the FEC data.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s presidential primary election has been postponed to Aug.
11.
The 2020 presidential election will take place Nov. 3.