House Republicans who challenged Biden’s win are losing lots of corporate cash

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Mike Kelly and Ivanka Trump watch a demonstration by Astrobotic Technology CEO John Thornton
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Mike Kelly and Ivanka Trump watch a demonstration by Astrobotic Technology CEO John Thornton during a tour of the facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Cohn/File Photo

By Jason Lange and Andy Sullivan

In the days after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, dozens of companies said they would suspend political donations to Republican lawmakers who had backed then-President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election.

More than one year later, Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to challenge the election results have so far collected about half as much corporate cash as they did at this point in the previous election cycle, a Reuters analysis of campaign finance records shows.