First, the next three highest recipients of pharma donations are Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Chris Christie. Many of pharma's contributions to these three candidates were made in 2015 and early this year, when it was still unclear who would be the likely Republican winner that pharma wants beholden to it. That means that before this spring, the pharma companies were spreading their lucre around to everyone. Once it became clear that the election would come down to Hillary versus someone else, they made her the overwhelming recipient of their largesse.