GOP who challenged election results rake in campaign cash, donations boom

Corporations that pledged to cut off Republican lawmakers who opposed certifying the presidential election largely made good on the commitment, removing a key source of financial support for the party in the first three months of the year.

But at least a third of those 147 Republicans nevertheless raised more campaign money compared to the same period in 2019, boosting their collections from individual donors to make up the difference, a Washington Post analysis of federal election records shows.

And a handful of congressional Republicans - the most outspoken supporters of election-related conspiracy theories that helped inspire the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol - shattered their fundraising performances from two years earlier.

Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, each pulled in more than $3 million. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., whose extreme views prompted a party-line House vote in February that stripped her of committee assignments, raised more than $3.2 million. That earned her the second-highest fundraising haul among House Republicans, behind only Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., who also opposed certifying President Biden’s electoral win.

Several other Republicans who built national profiles as hard-line Trump loyalists also posted banner fundraising hauls. In total, a dozen GOP election objectors raised at least $1 million each. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., raised $1.8 million; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, collected $2.1 million.