Posted on 07/15/2015 3:05:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican’s campaign is fueled mostly by big donors. The average size of a Bush donation: $926.
Jeb Bush is a fundraising powerhouse among the Republican Party's biggest donors, but he is struggling among smaller donors. Of the $11.4 million his campaign raised during its first two weeks, only 3 percent came from donors who gave less than $200.
Small contributors gave Bush only $368,023, the Bush campaign's federal filings show. Donors who gave the legal maximum of $2,700 accounted for more than 80 percent of Bush's total haul.
For comparison's sake, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz raised $1.8 million from small donors during the first week of his campaign back in March, nearly half of his campaign's total. And, on the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that more than 76.5 percent of his fundraising ($10.5 million) came from small donors.
Bush had 12,334 donors between June 15 and June 30, his campaign said. That means his average contribution was $926. The average Sanders contribution? $35.
The new figures will likely only further fuel the perception among conservative activists that Bush is a candidate of the wealthy GOP establishment that is unable or unlikely to connect with the grassroots. In fact, the $368,000 in small-donor fundraising is less than Bush himself spent on the campaign during the brief, 10-day period in early June when he was formally "testing the waters" for a campaign.
When the $103 million his super PAC has raised is factored in, Bush's fundraising from small donors is almost surely less than the 3 percent he reported for the campaign itself on Wednesday, and likely well below 1 percent. The super PAC group said last week that it had a total of 9,900 donors—which would mean its average donor contributed than $10,000. The super PAC said roughly 500 of its donors gave $25,000 or more.
The new report does show Bush's tremendous appeal among the moneyed class of donors. In a remarkable static, the most common denomination for a donor to Bush was the legal maximum of $2,700. More than 3,400 donors gave Bush a maximum-sized contribution.
Nope. I could ask the Mexicans I see outside...
You would think “let’s take away your jobs” would have more appeal to the common man.
Not surprising. These bluebloods just simply want to buy America and have it along with their other assets offshore.
Maybe it’s messaging, maybe he should emphasize “let’s bring a bunch of felons into the country so that they can overburden our welfare system”. It’s all about optics, after all.
To all of you "We gotta vote Republican no matter what", do you really think I'm going to drag my sorry carcass down the voting booth and vote for Jeb? Do you think I'm going to give this clown my hard-earned money when he's completely bought and paid for by pro-amnesty corporate schmucks and crony businessmen?
The pic above is Jeb giving Hillary a fricking medal, ONE YEAR after the events in Benghazi.
NOW TELL ME WHY I SHOULD EVEN PAY THIS IDIOT A FRACTION OF MY ATTENTION?
Mr. Bush, thanks for signing the castle doctrine when you were FL-gov.
NOW, GO AWAY! We don’t like NWO types.
Please do.
We created these country club sell outs when we lowered their taxes over the past thirty years. Now they don’t need us anymore. They are now free to, “work with the Democrats to get things done”. They take us for granted. It is time for the conservative base to oppose them and their tax cuts and their corporate capitalism and socialism all the way down the board. we need to show them that we are relevant.
Big money is nice but your voting base is your small donors.One man , one vote . Unless you are a Democrat of course.
Corporate welfare much?
“NOW TELL ME WHY I SHOULD EVEN PAY THIS IDIOT A FRACTION OF MY ATTENTION? “
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Because he will nominate conservatives to the Supreme Court, just like Bush 41 (Souter) and Bush 43 (Roberts). ;)
Is it “Te gusta el jefe”?
Tool, or worse.
Manchurian Candidate anyone?
I don’t know anybody who intends to vote for him.
I know no one who likes Jeb. I hope no one gives him $.
My mother is deep into Alzheimers but still puts Fox News on all the time, and tends to believe everything they say now (she can’t help it), and even SHE doesn’t like Jeb!
Nope, I think the figure for those who would actually vote for him is so small that they just make up a figure to keep him out in front in the polls.
Jeb has lost before he began..and rightfully so. He is just another of the Bush’s that promise things that these fake Republicans say and do otherwise. He has lost before he began because of his relatives past actions - that is a good thing.
Really, we have had our share of Republican assholes and many are named Bush - we don’t need another one!
bump and no I don’t
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