Posted on 07/09/2015 3:45:58 PM PDT by VinL
Fulfilling ambitions to raise a historic amount of money in pursuit of the White House, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and his allies took full advantage of the nation's evolving campaign finance laws to collect more than $114 million in the first six months of the year.
No candidate for president has benefited from so much money so early in a campaign.
While the total is sure to widely eclipse the fundraising hauls of Bush's 16 major competitors for the GOP nomination, the ambitious $100 million goal — and Bush's success at reaching it on schedule — has yet to scare any challenger from the race.
The total announced Thursday includes $103 million raised by Right to Rise, a super PAC that will support Bush in the crowded GOP contest. The rest came into Bush's formal campaign.
"More than the symbolism of surpassing $100 million, the totals demonstrate Bush's success charting new territory," said Bush donor Mark Jacobs, a former Texas energy executive who now lives in Iowa. "It's that Right to Rise has raised more and been more successful than any political organization ever."
The former governor of Florida is taking a unique approach to a presidential bid by delegating many operations to Right to Rise, which as a super PAC is free of the limits placed on how much money a traditional campaign can raise from individual donors.
Designed with longtime aides Sally Bradshaw, Mike Murphy and others, it's a strategy untested in modern politics, the outgrowth of court decisions in 2010 that led to the creation of the super PAC.
Based in Los Angeles, Right to Rise will handle a huge part of the costly work of running for president, including buying TV, (snip)
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Nice. Now they can afford a brain transplant for their candidate.
Wonder how many RATs gave $?
We’re supposed to be surprised that a man who is son and brother to two former presidents, whose family dealings with the elites go back hundreds and hundreds of years raised more than the other candidates?
Which will make his collapse all the more humorous.
No Bush no way no how.
Right. Now they just have to figure out how to get a dollar bill to walk into a polling booth and pull the lever.
$100 million so Hitlery can make pretend she has an opponent.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
The weasel Eric Cantor had millions and spent millions and he still lost to a candidate he outspent 20-1
Jeb may have the money, but he won’t have the votes.
We hope it’s a waste of money, but I don’t underestimate the uniparty. No matter how bad they get, they cling to office like ticks on a dog’s ass. The GOPe certainly knows how to fight...conservatives. However, they keep getting elected no matter how many times they thumb their noses at their own constituents. They think we have nowhere else to go, but times may be changing.
Frankly, I don’t care if we get a third party if Jebbie is the Republican nominee. If it comes down to Jebbie or Hillary, and Hillary wins because a third party rises against the Bush aristocracy, I don’t care. We’ve already endured the Obamanation. The GOPe can’t scare me into voting for the lesser of two evils anymore. The fact that these moneyed elites are backing Jebbie makes me even more convinced him and his ilk are exactly what we do NOT need.
Talk about throwing good money after bad.
Not a dime from me. Jeb is Hillary without the pantsuit.
How much of that did not come from CoC cronies?
oh wow, $114M!!
oh well, that is NOT $1B, which is what a small portion of what Trump has.
Go back, and try again.
I wonder if:
1) They actually did raise that money, or are using fudges to pretend they did?, and if,
2) Those donations were one-shots, and the donors don’t intend to follow them up with more money?
No Bushes, No Clintons 2016
Wow - about 17 million for every vote he’s going to get in the primaries.....
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