built a broader fundraising network<\/a>, leading Paxton in about three-quarters of the more than 1,400 Texas ZIP codes that produced itemized donations from in the first half of the year.<\/p>\nAn analysis of Federal Election Commission records by The Dallas Morning News revealed a statewide map that illustrates two different fundraising coalitions.<\/p>\n
Paxton’s biggest financial support comes from a relatively small number of affluent Republican strongholds, while Talarico’s itemized donations are spread across a much broader swath of Texas.<\/p>\n
Paxton’s biggest fundraising haul came from ZIP code 75229, along Royal Lane in northwest Dallas, which includes part of Preston Hollow. Residents there contributed about $536,000 through June to Paxton, the attorney general, and committees supporting him. Talarico raised about $110,000 there.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other North Texas pockets of strong support for Paxton included the Park Cities, around DFW International Airport, around Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Colleyville, Southlake and Midlothian.<\/p>\n
The strongest\u00a0 ZIP code for Talarico, a state representative from Austin, was 78703, an area along the Colorado River in Austin, an area with multiple affluent neighborhoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019s received more than $400,000 from residents of that ZIP code.<\/p>\n
His campaign and affiliated committees outraised Paxton in roughly 75% of the Texas ZIP codes that produced itemized donations.<\/p>\n
The News\u2019 analysis was based only on itemized contributions, meaning those reported with information such as the donor\u2019s name and address. The FEC generally requires those details once a donor\u2019s total contributions exceed $200 during an election cycle.<\/p>\n
That disclosure rule means The News analysis cannot determine the origin of all the candidates\u2019 money.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because smaller donations aren’t tied to publicly disclosed names and addresses, the analysis could not determine the ZIP codes for all of the candidates’ fundraising<\/p>\n
Through June, Talarico received $28.6 million in unitemized contributions whose donors’ locations were not disclosed. Paxton received about $1.1 million in unitemized contributions.<\/p>\n
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