Posted on 08/13/2015 8:30:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The donors who gave to Perry's last presidential run have supplied more money to Cruz's campaign this time around.
Rick Perry's campaign is in deep financial trouble. And fellow Texan Ted Cruz is part of the reason why.
While Perry's near-broke campaign has stopped paying its staff, Cruz has dominated the chase for Texas dollars—even among the donors who fueled Perry's 2012 presidential campaign. According to a National Journal analysis of campaign-finance records, Perry 2012 donors have given over $895,000 to Cruz so far this year but only $376,000 (less than half) to Perry's 2016 campaign.
Perry raised just over $1.1 million in the second quarter of 2015, meaning Cruz has brought in almost as much from ex-Perry donors as Perry raised in total in the first half of the year. Perry raised more than $20.5 million in his 2012 run but dropped out just before the South Carolina primary.
Cruz's financial haul among Perry donors could be even larger than the stats show. Our analysis matched names and zip codes from the Federal Election Commission's donation records across campaigns; typos, name changes, and moving all could have caused shared donors' records not to match. The analysis also omits small donors who gave less than $200, since campaigns aren't required to itemize and report those donations.
Perry's campaign did not respond to questions about his fundraising.
Presidential fundraising isn't entirely a zero-sum game, with some donors choosing to support multiple candidates. But many contributors stick with one candidate at a time. Cruz siphoning off Perry's presidential donor base is just another example of how much momentum the former governor has lost since he rocketed up the 2012 GOP primary polls four summers ago. Perry, still suffering from a mistake-filled first campaign and no longer able to twist arms as a powerful sitting governor, has to rely on super PACs to keep his campaign from totally disappearing this summer.
A more crowded 2016 presidential field has squeezed Perry's standing in the polls. And that field, especially the senator from Texas, has squeezed Perry's fundraising, too.
Because as an ex-governor he has no power to make anyone’s new vaccine mandatory.
Serves his right for backing Dewherst in the Senate race rather than Cruz.
I’m not a big Ted Cruz fan (though I could become one). But Perry is simply a weak candidate. I can’t see him surviving the early primaries.
I guess it’s because his former supporters just don’t have a heart.
Here’s why: Conservatives see Ted Cruz as a younger version of Ronald Reagan. It’s not a coincidence that Cruz’s first public rally was at an Evangelical university.
Kind of feel bad for Rick Perry. He looks the part, as did Romney, I guess. But he doesn’t have the intellect, which sounds funny because most pols are not very smart at all.
Those are some mighty expensive smart glasses.
Yowza!
Rick Perry was a good governor of Texas two terms and likely would have been elected had he chosen to run for a third term, which no one has done ... previously (run for a third term as Governor).
So potentially He has a good record.
Or that he brought imams into TX schools to teach Islam to kids.
Or that he has attended Bilderberg meetings.
Or that TX debt more than doubled under Perry.
Or that he supported the Trans-Texas highway corridor.
Or that in 1988, he supported Al Gore for president. He was Gore's TX campaign chairman.
Or that he issued an EO that every schoolgirl in TX had to be injected with Gardasil. TX lawmakers had to block this order.
Perry is a phony and NOT a conservative. Brad Thor should be ashamed for endorsing him so ardently.
LOL I remember that one.
The Donald Trump bad lip reading should be epic.
This article, written by Capt. Obvious himself, is spot on. :-)
>> Perry needs to drop along with the rest of the RINOs including Trump.
Perry and most of the rest of the field need to drop out soon — one after another.
Trump needs to stay in the game, blocking for Ted Cruz, who has the conservative ball and will cross the finish line for the win. :-)
HA!
Why did he even run? By the time he announced he had nothing new to offer.
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