Bush campaign, super PAC raise $114.4M for presidential bid
Source: AP
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JULIE BYKOWICZ
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush raised $114.4 million in the first six months of the year to fuel his White House ambitions, a historic amount that takes full advantage of the nation's evolving campaign finance laws.
No candidate for president has benefited from so much money so early in a campaign, and the total is sure to eclipse the fundraising of each of the other 16 major competitors for the Republican nomination.
"People have been willing to take a look, and he's overcome the people who have said, 'Not another Bush,'" said Bill Kunkler, a Chicago construction company executive and Bush donor. "People are looking at him as a guy who did it on his own, and who stands on his own."
The former Republican governor of Florida is taking a unique approach to a presidential bid, delegating many operations to an affiliated group that is free of limits on how much money a traditional campaign can raise from individual donors.
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)You, know... Donald Trump... Their Front Runner!
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)He announced running for President don't know how he would know that
7962
(11,841 posts)Sometimes he's obsessed with him it seems.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)and could be a bit of a challenge for Hillary.
7962
(11,841 posts)Too many on the right dont like him and they'll do the same as they did with Romney; stay home and bitch about needing a "true conservative" candidate
Roland99
(53,342 posts)until he "officially" announced his candidacy.
fucking slime.
asjr
(10,479 posts)we have ever observed. Money has always played a part but this time the SCOTUS has allowed it a la Citizens United. And it is the Republicans who have the money. But that is all they have. Each one that has been going for the gold will be able to have all the money needed. They have no ethics, no sincerity, no talent, no real love for country, and definitely no brains. Democrats must band together. We must win! We will win in order to rid ourselves of United and the crazy shenanigans the Congress has played. I must state this: I am an 82 yr old woman living in an Assisted Living home. I have no money to speak of unless a child of mine gives me some, but I will start saving all I can to donate to any Democrat running. I am that afraid!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)HRC is likewise doing the money chase. I know she has to to keep up with the R's but still, there's a good alternative, BERNIE
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)WHAT !
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wordpix
(18,652 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Fool me twice urrrr ummmmm you can't get fooled again.
7962
(11,841 posts)At least whoever it gets spent on will be better off. Silver linings, folks
Paladin
(28,280 posts)No, I didn't think so.
Third_stone
(3 posts)It was the Bin Ladin family who put his brother in office. Why is it that we can't catch on and vote against the one with the most money? Since Reagan and before we have been dupes voting for the candidate who raises the most money, regardless of plans to ruin the economy, wreck social security, make the working stiff poorer, which correlates with raising the most money.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Prescott, for one
chapdrum
(930 posts)We cannot get enough of this dangerous, ludicrous Bush Syndicate. Groundhog Day in America (and other countries, too, e.g., Britain). Imo, primary fault goes to MSM, which continues to flatter these frauds.
(Am not a DU vet yet, but welcome just the same.)