WASHINGTON — In Georgia's twin Senate runoff elections, the duos of GOP incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are selling themselves to voters as package deals.
But by one key metric, the Democratic candidates have much more in common: their donors.
A McClatchy analysis of campaign finance filings through mid-October shows that Ossoff and Warnock shared more than 5,000 big-money donors in common, compared with fewer than 500 shared by Perdue and Loeffler. And that's not counting the small-dollar donors whose identities campaigns aren't legally required to disclose and who have made up significantly larger shares of the Georgia Democrats' contributions than the Republicans'.
