Posted on 02/01/2016 10:43:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday showed that wealthy donors who according to The New York Times have built a powerful shadow Republican Party of outside groups, are splitting into two mutually hostile and deep-pocketed factions in support of Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
The report shows that many of the Wall Street financiers who have been the backbones of Republican super PACs in the last six years believe that Sen. Marco Rubio is the best GOP candidate to win a general election battle against front-runner Hillary Clinton and in the last six months has raised $14.3 million, including $2.5 million each from the hedge fund founders Paul Singer and Ken Griffin.
And while the super PAC even achieved to draw significant support from donors who previously backed Jeb Bush -- Chris Cline, a coal executive, and Brian Ballard, a prominent Florida lobbyist -- they weren't successful in avoiding the release of a new counter-establishment of conservative donors whose favorite candidate is Sen. Ted Cruz.
The New York Times reports the counter-establishment includes some donors who are outside "the universe of traditional Republican giving" and include "wealthy evangelicals, libertarian businessmen, Israel hawks and others disenchanted by the party's past nominees, and are drawn to Mr. Cruz's uncompromising social conservatism and his promise to disrupt the party's traditional power brokers in Washington."(continued)
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If they’re counting on my vote Rubio won’t come close to winning any election.
No worries. Trump has this.
I would never vote for Cruz or Rubio for different reasons......they both suck but Cruz sucks more.
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