A small cluster of Democrats, led by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, donated a combined $226 million to outside groups in the 2018 midterms for Congress, or nearly $1 out of every $5 spent by outside groups in those elections.
The spending helped Democrats win back the House. Now, some of these mega-donors -- including the billionaire pro-impeachment activist Tom Steyer -- are poised to help shape the 2020 races for the presidency and Congress.
He called impeachment"the major issue facing the United States of America on a real-time basis.""It's going to be very hard to understand how we could support somebody who tries to duck" the impeachment question, Steyer said in the interview.S. Donald SussmanAmount donated: $22.4 millionThe billionaire hedge-fund manager, who rarely grants interviews, has been one of the Democratic Party's biggest financial backers in recent elections.
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