Koch Brothers!
Posted on 01/28/2015 9:14:08 AM PST by GIdget2004
The Koch brothers’ conservative network is still debating whether it will spend any of its massive $889 million budget in the Republican presidential primaries, but the prospect of choosing a GOP nominee loomed over the network’s just-concluded donor conference in the California desert.
In an informal straw poll of some conference donors, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida came out ahead of four other would-be GOP presidential candidates who had been invited, according to an attendee familiar with the results. The poll was conducted by Frank Luntz, a veteran GOP pollster, during a break-out session of the conference, which wrapped up Tuesday after a long weekend of presentations and discussions at the Ritz-Carlton in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul — who received the least enthusiastic response from donors during a Sunday night forum of prospective candidates that also featured Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — finished last in Luntz’s poll, the source told POLITICO. The poll is by no means a definitive assessment of the feelings of the hundreds of wealthy business leaders who comprise the vaunted network created by billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch. But it does provide an early glimpse into the leanings of a pool of megadonors who are being hotly courted by the field of would-be candidates, and whose checkbooks could go a long way toward determining who emerges with the GOP nomination — regardless of whether the Koch network decides to formally back a candidate.
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I am with you. Rubio is much better than the RINO has-beens. He let me down big time with the immigration fiasco...not only in policy but in how poorly he performed. I feel like he’s not ready for the bigger stage. That said, he provided THE conservative model in 2010 for winning against the ‘smart’ party people on both sides. He’s conservative a heart. He just sucks on immigration more than we had hoped. We knew he was not good on it, but it turned out worse than expected. Hopefully, lesson learned. We’ll see.
Typical POLITICO BS.
The poll was just conducted of “some” donors, and POLITICO hides actual numbers even of those few polled.
For all this story says Ted Cruz or even Hillary Clinton could have been the favorite.
El Fix is in.
They are libertarians.
Right on. The rinos can’t get a majority. An inspiring, principled populist has a great chancevsfter the leftist screwing the people have had.
The Koch Brothers appear to believe in capitalism and economic freedom from government but they must also believe in cheap labor immigration and a world wide economic-political system as well.
Correct.
There is no way I will vote for that scumbag!!
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