Rep. Greg Landsman received 85.1% of campaign donations from out-of-state donors in 2026, including former House Speaker Pelosi
U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, received an overwhelming majority of donations in the first fundraising quarter of 2026 from donors outside Ohio.
The Democratic candidate, who is running for reelection in a district that has flipped Republican, once worked as a communications director for Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and also has a years-long history of receiving significant funding from out-of-state donors, including his former employer.
The majority of Landman’s campaign money raised in the first quarter of 2026 comes from out-of-state donations, with 85.1% from donors outside Ohio, according to data from the Federal Election Commission. Of those donations, $156,408.84 came from donors in California.
Funding from donors in Ohio made up $113,322.12 of donations to the Democratic congressman’s campaign.
Landsman worked as the deputy communications director for Nancy Pelosi at the beginning of his career in the early 2000s. Landsman said that working for the congresswoman was his first job out of college in an Instagram post after Pelosi announced that she would retire from Congress in January 2027.
“The list of Speaker Pelosi’s accomplishments is far too long for a tweet,” Landsman said in the social post.
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Landsman’s campaign committee, Landsman for Congress, and his joint fundraising committee, the Landsman Victory Fund, have received $90,000 from Pelosi since 2022, according to data from the FEC.
The donations were made through both Pelosi’s congressional campaign and PAC to the Future, a political action committee sponsored by the congresswoman.
Landsman also received a majority of donations from outside of the state in 2025, with 29.86% of 2,786 donations recorded by the FEC coming from Ohioans. Donors in California contributed $115,378.11 to Landsman’s reelection campaign funds last year.
National Republican Congressional Committee Spokesman Zach Bannon commented on Landsman’s out-of-state campaign contributions and connections to Pelosi.
“Democrat Greg Landsman rakes in cash from California while pushing radical far-left California policies on hardworking Ohioans,” Bannon said. “Liberal Landsman may be a great fit for Nancy Pelosi’s office but he is too extreme for Ohio.”
As Ohio.News recently reported, Landsman received $14,500 in donations between 2022 and 2025 from Equality PAC, a political action committee that supports and donates to legislators who support the Equality Act, legislation that would allow biological men to compete against female athletes and access female spaces.
The PAC also supports Pelosi and named the “Nancy Pelosi Equality Ally Award,” which the PAC gives to public figures, after the congresswoman.
Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, where Landman is running for reelection, has flipped and become more Republican in the years since he first took office, with residents voting for President Donald Trump by 3 points in the 2024 election.
A recent change in congressional districts, which will take effect for the 2026 midterm elections, has also caused the district to lean even more Republican.
