And who can blame them?
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Ms. Clinton has tried to tap into this anger in her speeches. But Bush took in a massive pile of cash, totaling more than $100 million, before he joined the race, mostly through his Super PAC.
The two top performers were William Killmer of the Mortgage Bankers Association, who collected $36,200, followed by Dirk Van Dongen of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, who collected $33,900.
The breakdown of contributions to super PACs is not reported. In many cases, the candidates themselves have “blessed” the super PACs and pitched in with their fundraising. Most of those groups, which accept contributions of any size and are subject to legal limits on how closely they can work with the campaigns, file their FEC reports at the end of the month.
The filings show he has lobbied for Saudi Arabia and for the UAE. That puts her on track to outstrip the presidential high-water mark set by President Obama in 2012, when 47 percent of donors who gave him more than $200 were women, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
For example, Elizabeth Bagley, who gave between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, served as “senior adviser for secretary’s initiatives” under Clinton at the State Department.
Corrado said Sanders’ appeal among progressive Democratic donors echoes the kind of support enjoyed by fellow Vermonter Howard Dean, who pioneered Internet fundraising to raise about $50 million for his unsuccessful bid 2004 Democratic nomination.
Outside groups are furthering the ambitions of at least four other Republican presidential aspirants: Rubio, Cruz, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
“It wasn’t like we all had time to retreat to a local bar and drown our sorrows”, said Teddy Goff, the Clinton campaign’s digital director – a role he also filled for President Obama’s reelection campaign. Money from outside groups has various limitations: it can’t be coordinated with campaign strategy, some can’t directly say words like “vote for”, and other groups are charged higher prices for ads. Morgan Stanley was a distant second, with employee donation checks totaling $12,000. Most of the contributors donated the maximum $2,700.
Trump has faced questions about his own past political donations, including Democrats like Hillary Clinton.
The first major campaign finance data dump of the 2016 presidential race is in, offering a look into how the candidates are raising and spending money. By now, it has been announced by the campaign that it has raised $45 million, however a new campaign finance report has revealed about the campaign’s haul. He spent $63,600 at his own hotels and office buildings.
One of Ms. Clinton’s Democratic rivals, independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, is rising in the polls.
“I was thrown a little bit because Rand Paul raised substantially less than we did”, he said. The FEC only requires names and identifying information for people who give more than $200.
She raised big and spent big. His campaign spent another $686,081 with CampaignHQ, an Iowa-based fundraising firm led by a GOP operative that specializes in outreach to conservatives and evangelicals. Cruz’s presidential campaign raised $14.3 million in its first quarter. He spent $372,647 on IT equipment and consulting services.
Now, in thousands of pages of campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday by Republican Jeb Bush and other candidates, a first glimpse is emerging of just how much Super PACs are beginning to reshape how candidates run and pay for their campaigns. Like Rubio, she has a registered Goldman Sachs lobbyist drumming up donations on her behalf.
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