Following a mediocre fundraising quarter, Sam Brown has found a new bankroller for his flailing Senate campaign: a MAGA tech billionaire from Silicon Valley.
Brown’s personal Super PAC raked in $2 million solely from billionaire David Duffield, whose net worth is currently estimated to be $13.2 billion. The Super PAC is already funding TV ads and polling for Brown amid the messy, crowded GOP primary.
Read more about Brown’s billionaire backer below.
Nevada Current: Nevada billionaire megadonor pumps $2 million into Sam Brown super PAC
By April Corbin Girnus
- David Duffield over the past three months donated $2 million to Duty First Nevada, a super PAC supporting Brown, according to campaign finance reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission. Duffield donated $1 million to the PAC on July 26 and $1 million on Aug. 27. The $2 million represents all but $530 of the total contributions to the PAC from July through September.
- Duffield is not an established political mega donor and his previous contributions have largely gone unnoticed, though they have increased in recent years. FEC records show the couple donated more than $1.1 million to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in 2020.
- Brown significantly trails Rosen in fundraising currently […] Brown directly raised just $1.2 million over the quarter. He is expected to rely on outside groups like Duty First Nevada.
- Duffield made headlines in 2004 when he purchased and closed Ponderosa Ranch […] That private deal upset local, state and federal officials who for years had been working toward purchasing the land, which overlooks Lake Tahoe, and preserving it for public use.
KRNV: Sam Brown Receives $2M Boost
- ANCHOR: Republican Senate hopeful Sam Brown has received a big financial boost. According to the Nevada Current, David Duffield, an Incline Village-based billionaire, has given Brown’s Super PAC $2 million over the last 3 months.
- Brown is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Senator Jacky Rosen. Duffield is not a well known political donor. FEC records show he donated more than $1.1 million to President Trump in his reelection campaign in 2020 and $5,000 to Representative Mark Amodei’s campaign in 2022.
The Nevada Independent: Pro-Sam Brown super PAC gets $2 million from software billionaire
By Sean Golonka
- Duty First Nevada PAC, a super PAC supporting Republican Sam Brown’s U.S. Senate bid to unseat Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), reported $2 million in contributions during the past three months from software billionaire David Duffield.
- Duffield, the co-founder of Workday and PeopleSoft, is based in Incline Village, Nevada, and has a net worth of $10.2 billion, according to Forbes. He was the only major donor to the Super PAC in the quarter.
- Duty First Nevada has reported spending more than $52,000 on ads and email communications in support of the retired U.S. Army captain. Those ads began airing last week. It has also spent more than $300,000 on a combination of primarily consulting, political research and polling.
- Nevada’s 2024 Senate race is likely to be costly — Rosen raised $2.7 million in the last reporting period.
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- Money, money: Duty First PAC, which is supporting Republican Sam Brown for Senate in Nevada, raised $2 million — all from billionaire David Duffield, the founder of Workday.
