South Carolina candidates in the 2020 election cycle

Headline number $268,659,925.40 for one state and one cycle

$268,659,925.40 requires both keys: cycle 2020 and office state SC. Drop the cycle and you have described a multi-year South Carolina hub. Drop the state and you have described the national 2020 hub of $7,976,535,091.66. Keep both.

3.4% of $7,976,535,091.66 is this state's dollar slice inside 2020. 1.2% of 2459 is this state's candidate-record slice (29 of 2459). Those identities use packet facts only.

Public records, not accusations: $268,659,925.40 does not allege that South Carolina races were bought. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

South Carolina is office geography, not donor geography

Donor city joins are other pages. This file does not filter contributor city. $268,659,925.40 can include out-of-state itemized gifts to South Carolina candidates. Mixing donor geography into this total would invent a filter the packet does not apply.

South Carolina campaign finance still mixes cycles. This page does not. Researchers who need a multi-year South Carolina mix should leave this URL. Researchers who need South Carolina in 2020 should stay.

Cycle year 2020

Always pair the dollars with the year: $268,659,925.40 in 2020. Name South Carolina (SC) so a reader can match the office-state file. Other even-year windows are other joins.

Amended candidate filings can move $268,659,925.40 and $7,976,535,091.66. If the live hubs disagree with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the cycle file on FEC.gov.

Packet slug 2020-south-carolina-candidate-receipts is the LobbyVault filename for this 2020 × South Carolina join. Canonical path is /ties/2020-south-carolina-candidate-receipts/. Overlay the cycle hub and the state hub; do not treat either hub as $268,659,925.40.

Cycle 2020 (presidential) plus office state SC is the two-part key behind $268,659,925.40. Drop the cycle and the page becomes a multi-year state hub. Drop the state and the page becomes the national cycle hub of $7,976,535,091.66. Keep both.

Keep both join sides in every citation of the headline total. This /ties/ page is a snapshot of packet facts, not a substitute for live FEC.gov bulk files. Amended reports can move either side of the join; the newer extract controls. Internal links stay on the packet hrefs only. Unitemized activity and independent expenditures remain outside these totals.

3.4% is a table identity

3.4% = $268,659,925.40 / $7,976,535,091.66. 1.2% = 29 / 2459. Quote both when the question is size. Quote only dollars when the question is money. Quote only records when the question is how many candidate lines.

Do not treat 3.4% as South Carolina's share of donor dollars. Donor geography is not this join.

Recompute the dollar share from the raw figures: 268,659,925.40 divided by 7,976,535,091.66 is 3.4%. The complement 7,707,875,166.26 is $7,707,875,166.26, which is 96.6% of the national 2020 book. Candidate share uses 29 / 2459.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending obligations. $268,659,925.40 has no award count beside it in this packet. Do not fold $268,659,925.40 into federal spending in South Carolina. Different statutes, different forms, different tables.

Caveats on a 2020 × South Carolina join

An SC office-state code does not mean every dollar was donated from South Carolina. Office state is not donor state. $268,659,925.40 is not allocated by district on this page. Those splits are not in the packet.

Cycle 2020 is presidential. Public records, not accusations.

South Carolina campaign-finance coverage still includes every other cycle. This tie does not. Researchers who need a multi-year mix should leave this URL and open the South Carolina hub. Researchers who need South Carolina in 2020 should stay here.

Do not invent candidate names. 29 is a record count. Mean about $9,264,135.36 is arithmetic. The packet published cycle, state, $268,659,925.40, 29, $7,976,535,091.66, and 2459.

Where to go next on LobbyVault

After this tie, the South Carolina hub shows South Carolina without 2020 as a required filter. The cycle hub shows 2020 without SC as a required filter. All election cycles lists other windows. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This URL remains the intersection.

$268,659,925.40 from 29 records is the intersection's signature. $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 records is the cycle signature. Do not swap them in a citation.

Candidate receipts are the only money in $268,659,925.40 and $7,976,535,091.66. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are other files. Mixing those files with this join would invent a total the packet does not contain.

If a later extract revises $268,659,925.40 or $7,976,535,091.66, the live South Carolina hub and the live 2020 hub control. This file is a packet snapshot, not a parallel disclosure system. Amended FEC reports can move either side of the join.

Questions

What is the 2020 × South Carolina candidate-receipt join?

It is $268,659,925.40 in candidate receipts matching cycle 2020 and office state SC, on 29 candidate records. The national 2020 hub without that state filter is $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. This page is the intersection, not a restatement of either hub and not a named-candidate list. Source: FEC.gov.

Was 2020 a presidential or midterm cycle?

Cycle 2020 is a presidential two-year FEC window. That calendar label dates the receipts. It does not explain why South Carolina candidates reported $268,659,925.40 on 29 records, and it is not a finding about turnout. Nationally the same window shows $7,976,535,091.66 from 2459 candidates. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipt aggregates.

What share of 2020 candidates ran in South Carolina?

29 of 2459 candidate records are 1.2% of the national 2020 file in this extract. Dollar share is separate: $268,659,925.40 is 3.4% of $7,976,535,091.66. Quote both. Do not convert 1.2% into a share of South Carolina adults. Eligible-voter denominators are not in the packet.

Does $268,659,925.40 fund USAspending awards coded to South Carolina?

No. Campaign receipts and federal awards are different statutes. This packet has only FEC candidate receipt aggregates. $268,659,925.40 has no obligation dollars beside it. Do not add the join to federal spending in South Carolina. Cite FEC.gov for the candidate-receipt file. Independent expenditures are also outside this join.