From The Hill:
“Republican strategist Karl Rove has said candidates will need to raise at least $50 million to make it through the primaries, putting Cruz well on his way. Cruz’s early entrance into the presidential field has also given him a significant polling bump and vaulted him into the top tier of GOP contenders.”
Translation: You will need 50 million to fight off Rove.
Pray America is waking
From Washington Post:
“Paul raised about $228,000 over the course of that six-hour period, with fundraising taking a distinct upturn in the wake of his live-streamed campaign announcement.
To put that into a more tangible metric, Paul’s fundraising peaked at about $24 a second — about $86,000 per hour — right as he was finishing up his speech.
This compares Rand Paul’s fundraising with his father, Ron Paul’s efforts with graphs and how much Cruz raised.
“To put that into a more tangible metric, Paul’s fundraising peaked at about $24 a second — about $86,000 per hour — right as he was finishing up his speech.
So how does that compare with his father’s efforts? Ron Paul’s most successful money bomb raised about $6 million dollars. If you look at the amount raised during those two efforts as a per-second average, Rand trails by a wide margin. And this is Rand Paul’s highest period of fundraising versus Ron Paul’s 24-hour average.
The day isn’t over. In the half hour since we stopped looking at Paul’s fundraising, we added another $30,000, his third-best 30 minutes of the day. He’ll have a number of other media appearances over the next few hours, and the amount will continue to increase. In the 24 hours after his launch, Ted Cruz raised a reported $500,000. Paul should top that.
(Update: Later reports indicate that Cruz raised a million dollars. That’s a higher bar for Paul.)