Rancher contributions received by TRUMP VICTORY

How RANCHER and TRUMP VICTORY meet on one form

LobbyVault stores filer-entered occupation strings on one axis and recipient committee IDs on the other. This page is the cell where RANCHER meets C00618389. A receipt appears here because the occupation field grouped to RANCHER and the receiving committee is TRUMP VICTORY. The $1,468,361 figure is that intersection. It is not a ranch-association dues payment, not an independent expenditure, and not a finding that ranching as an industry directed the money.

FEC individual records carry a self-reported occupation. Filers type what they type. RANCHER, RANCH OWNER, and CATTLEMAN, if used, can sit in other hubs. This join is the RANCHER string only. Matching that string to C00618389 does not certify that the donor still ran livestock, held title to acreage, or bundled gifts for the committee.

Read the join as a filter. Two public tables overlapped on an occupation label and a committee ID. The overlap is bookkeeping, not a motive, and not a count of ranch operations in any state.

RANCHER as the occupation side of the join

All recipients combined, the RANCHER grouping shows $17,057,096 in itemized individual money. The TRUMP VICTORY cell is $1,468,361, or about 8.6% of that labeled total. Most of the occupation bucket still sits at other committees. Opening only this tie would understate those other receipts.

The occupation hub rolls every committee into one running RANCHER total. The committee hub rolls every occupation into one C00618389 total. Neither hub is this page. The relationship record exists so those two summaries can be compared without collapsing them.

TRUMP VICTORY as the recipient side

Committee C00618389 received $1,468,361 from RANCHER-coded itemized gifts across 524 contributions. That is this occupation’s slice of the committee, not the committee’s entire fundraising history. Other occupations can appear on the TRUMP VICTORY overlay without appearing in these 524 rows.

Dividing $1,468,361 by 524 contributions gives about $2,802 per gift. That arithmetic mean is not a typical check. A few large itemized gifts can sit next to smaller ones, and FEC itemization thresholds already omit unitemized amounts. 524 lines is a moderate contribution count relative to the dollars.

What the dollar overlap does and does not prove

An 8.6% share describes how RANCHER-coded receipts lined up against one committee ID. It does not prove that ranchers funded a party, a nominee, or a federal award. Individual contributions are personal gifts reported to the FEC. USAspending obligations are a different dataset. An occupation name that appears in both places is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline.

The occupation field can lag a job change or a shortened trade name. Treat RANCHER here as the string on the form. Correlation between an occupation bucket and a committee is not causation of any political outcome.

Where to read each side without mixing the ledgers

The Rancher occupation page keeps the $17,057,096 occupation total and any other recipient committees in that grouping. The TRUMP VICTORY committee page keeps C00618389 receipts from every occupation, not only RANCHER. All occupations and all FEC ties collect neighboring joins so this pair can be compared with other occupation-committee intersections. Independent expenditures stay outside this source note.

Researchers comparing RANCHER to other occupation keys should stay on the occupations index rather than treating $1,468,361 as a ranching-sector total. The 524 contributions are itemized lines only. Unitemized gifts, in-kind transfers, and independent expenditures are omitted.

How to cite the RANCHER–TRUMP VICTORY cell

A clean footnote names both keys: occupation RANCHER totaling $17,057,096 across all recipients, and $1,468,361 in 524 itemized gifts to TRUMP VICTORY (C00618389). If you need a share, attach it only to the occupation total: this cell is 8.6%. Do not print a ranch-industry share of USAspending. This packet has no award field.

Subtract $1,468,361 from $17,057,096 and the difference is RANCHER-coded money still sitting at every other committee combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those committees are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-committee total; the committee internal link holds every occupation with this committee ID.

Questions

How much have Ranchers given to TRUMP VICTORY?

FEC itemized individual contributions coded occupation RANCHER and recipient TRUMP VICTORY (C00618389) total $1,468,361 across 524 contributions. Nationwide, RANCHER-coded receipts are $17,057,096. This committee cell is about 8.6% of that occupation total. The figure is a join, not a livestock census.

Is TRUMP VICTORY the only committee Ranchers give to?

No. About 8.6% of the $17,057,096 RANCHER occupation total matched C00618389. The remaining share sits at other committees on the Rancher occupation hub. This page reports only the 524 itemized rows that also named TRUMP VICTORY. Independent expenditures are omitted.

Does this money count as ranch-industry spending?

No. $1,468,361 is itemized individual money with occupation RANCHER, not a PAC of ranch groups and not a USDA or USAspending award. Occupation is filer-entered. A donor who typed RANCH OWNER or CATTLEMAN would not appear in these {rc} rows. FEC.gov is the source.

Where are the live RANCHER and TRUMP VICTORY tables?

Occupation totals live on the Rancher page. Committee receipts live on TRUMP VICTORY (C00618389). All occupations lists other occupation hubs. All FEC ties lists other occupation-committee joins built the same way. Original itemized filings remain at FEC.gov; this page is the join of those two fields only.