Two expensive House primary races are coming to a close on Tuesday in Maryland.
In one district, where Democrats are jockeying to succeed the retiring Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the longest-serving House Democrat, a leading candidate has drawn millions from groups tied to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the cryptocurrency industry.
In the Democratic primary for another district, a wealthy businessman who used to hold the seat has spent millions of his own money to try to reclaim it — even as the incumbent Democrat has laid out millions of her own cash to defend her position.
Here’s a look at the fund-raising and spending in the two races.
In TV ad after TV ad, Maryland residents have been told that Adrian Boafo, a Democrat vying for a House seat in the Fifth Congressional District in suburban Washington, is endorsed by Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, Senator Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Mr. Hoyer, the retiring Democratic congressman.
But absent from that list are the actual funders of those ads: AIPAC and the crypto industry.
Those power players are Mr. Boafo’s biggest funders, and two of the most influential and sometimes controversial groups in Democratic primaries this year.