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Piles of donations can't make up for a weak campaign. History proves it. For months, Jeb Bush has struggled to get his foothold in the Republican nomination fight, more often seeming like the nerdy kid who's been invited to the mall just to be made fun of than a serious contender for most powerful job in the world. There's one thing he's never been short of, though: cold, hard cash. Bush just got another infusion of money in the form of a $10 million donation to the pro-Bush Super PAC Right to Rise from none other than former AIG chairman...

Billionaire businessman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg backed away from an alleged $10 million contribution he was said to have made to a PAC affiliated with the presidential campaign of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

The billionaire insurance magnate whose company gave $10 million to the super PAC behind the Jeb Bush presidential bid expressed regret Thursday about the direction of that campaign. "Listen, I like Jeb Bush," Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg told a Fox News correspondent late Thursday morning, just hours after the donation was first reported. "Sorry he's not living up to expectations, but that's the reality of it."

Jeb Bush's Super PAC, which has famously spent tens of millions of dollars on ineffective TV ads, unveiled a new attempt to get attention on Thursday, when its top adviser, Mike Murphy, tweeted the following: So Bush's Super PAC appears to have paid to put up at least one billboard in Iowa that simply quotes Bush saying, "Donald Trump is unhinged." Given Murphy's tweet, it seems to be an attempt to provoke Trump into an intemperate response (and probably a desperate bid for media attention, which at least sort of worked, given that I'm writing this article). The problem here...

Twitter users have made a mockery of the ad A super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush bought a billboard ad in Iowa to take a swipe at frontrunner Donald Trump. The ad, paid for by Right to Rise USA, features a red billboard that reads, in white letters, "'Donald Trump is unhinged' -Jeb Bush."

The head of the major Super PAC backing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for president, Mike Murphy, praised the efforts of a donor to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to attack billionaire 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by skywriting nasty messages at the Rose Bowl on Friday. "Not us but can't argue with it!" Murphy, the head of Right to Rise USA, Tweeted on Friday with an image of the anti-Trump skywriting. Because Murphy was behind a previous anti-Trump effort involving a plane-he hired a plane to fly above a Trump rally in Alabama with an anti-Trump banner on it-people suspected...

The Rose Bowl is well underway. Already, we have seen great floats like the Lakers' (featuring the legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), as well as the best anthropomorphic wildlife animal float thanks to La Canada. But someone is trying to upstage the entire Rose Bowl parade! Who would hijack a public sphere and turn a spectacle into an outlandish political platform. Donald Trump—'s opponents. Above all the Pasadena floats are planes writing anti-Trump slogans. Although the image is cut off, the writing says "Donald Trump Parade workers even stopped to read all the anti-Trump slogans above them. One other sign read, "IOWANS...

A super PAC backing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is going after two other Republican governors: Chris Christie and John Kasich. Called "Three Governors," the new ad from Right to Rise compares their handling of natural disasters, jobs, the Affordable Care Act and ISIS. "Three Republican governors," a narrator intones. "But which governor won national praise for tough leadership handling nine hurricanes? Which governor made his state No. 1 in job creation? Which governor led the fight to stop Obamacare expansion in his state? And which governor laid out a tough plan to destroy ISIS months before the Paris attacks?...

Jeb Bush has virtually no chance of winning the Iowa caucuses - but his team wants to make sure Marco Rubio doesn't do too well there either. On Tuesday, the Bush-allied Super PAC Right to Rise USA released a new negative ad attacking Rubio - and, according to the Des Moines Register's Jennifer Jacobs, the ad will air on Iowa television. The ad itself is a pretty misleading attack on Rubio for missing a Senate briefing on terrorism to fundraise (Rubio actually attended a similar briefing days earlier, one that included classified information). What is interesting about the ad, though,...

Is the art of letter writing really dead? Not if the "super PAC" supporting Jeb Bush has its way. The group Right to Rise is asking Bush supporters to revive the lost art of writing letters, in the form of hand-written appeals to undecided voters in New Hampshire. In a preholiday mailer, the group thanked its supporters for their financial support, and asked them to make "a different kind of gift to Jeb by giving a few minutes of your time." The mailer included stationery and pre-addressed envelopes for five undecided voters in New Hampshire. It urged donors to dash...

Everyone that reads this story has to realize the establishment is not going away just because we will it so. They are fighting for their own existence and candidate. GOP candidate Marco Rubio is the establishment candidate right now and everyone needs to settle down and watch how this plays out. Then I was given this information and was shocked to see that Gowdy earlier in the year, along with Senator Tim Scott had been given money from Jeb Bush super PAC. From Florida Politics (Jan 2015): The committee launched by the former Florida governor and prospective 2016 Republican presidential...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his allied super-PAC plan to flood the New Hampshire TV airwaves ahead of the state's Republican presidential primary, the Boston Herald reported Saturday. The ad blitz includes $14 million in commercials in the New Hampshire and Boston markets, including two Super Bowl ads. The move is designed to boost Bush's struggling presidential campaign in a state where it's critical for him to perform well. Bush and his team have come under scrutiny for spending $35 million on TV ads nationally with little to show.

Jeb Bush and his super PAC are set to assault New Hampshire airwaves with a series of ads leading up the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. The spending looks like an effort by Bush to empty campaign coffers, filled in a fundraising haul started in late 2014, in a last ditch effort to gain ground in a state famous for anointing the Republican establishment standard-bearer. This strategy includes two ads from Bush's PAC, Right to Rise. Those ads are set to air in New Hampshire during the Super Bowl. The Boston Herald reported that the Bush team has reserved more than $14...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his super PAC are set to dominate the TV airwaves between now and the Granite State primary, reserving more than $14 million in commercials on both New Hampshire and Boston stations - including two Super Bowl spots - the Herald has learned. It's a clear sign that Bush operatives, despite criticism over already spending more than $35 million nationally on commercials for just 4 percent in the polls, are doubling down on a strategy of massive TV buys. Bush's forces plan to spend $14.1 million on ads on TV stations in New Hampshire and...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) share a complicated political history, with Rubio a one-time protege of Bush the younger. In the 2016 presidential race they share another distinction as the two candidates most dominating the airwaves with paid political ads. Jeb Bush has spent a massive $35 million on paid advertising so far this campaign, with $17 million spent in New Hampshire and $9 million devoted to Iowa. The money has come from both his individual campaign and the Right to Rise super pac allied with his candidacy. In spite of this ad...

After last night's Republican presidential-candidate debate in Las Vegas, Jeb Bush got some badly needed positive assessments of his performance, albeit mostly of the "he's not dead quite yet" variety. You have to figure that those cheering him on included not just his supporters and Establishment Republicans generally, but the small tribe of people who make their living buying and selling political TV ads. Unless his campaign really starts to cook, Team Bush is on a trajectory to become one of those historic profiles in futility that influence future behavior. And it could push the already crusty and embattled theory...

Here's what $35 million can buy you: 175 2016 Maybach S600s 350 RandPaul.coms 207,000 nights in a luxury suite at the Venetian, the site of Tuesday's CNN debate 466,000 Jeb Bush guacamole bowls Those guacamole bowls sell for $75 a pop, which is a lot of money to spend on a guacamole bowl. Jeb Bush's campaign and the super PACs supporting him didn't buy 466,000 expensive guacamole bowls for their $35 million, though; they paid that much in radio and TV ads since September instead, according to NBC News and SMG Delta, with the net result that Bush dropped more...

It's maybe too early to completely write off Jeb Bush's struggling presidential campaign. But it isn't too early to declare that the $35 million - and counting - that Bush and his allies have spent in TV ads since September might go down as the least effective advertising campaign in presidential history. Consider: Despite that more than $35 million, spent mostly by the pro-Bush Super PAC Right to Rise, Bush's national poll numbers remain stuck in the single digits, with a recent national Monmouth poll showing him at just 3 percent. What's more, Bush and his allies have spent a...

A couple of weeks ago, my colleague, Joe Cunningham, posted on how Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 94% was able to protect taxpayers from the ravages of ObamaCare. During the negotiations for the 2014 "CRomnibus" bill, Rubio was able to insert language forbidding Health and Human Services from moving money between accounts to cover the losses insurers suffered. What he did was force them to obey the ObamaCare law as it was written, as it was sold, and as it was scored by the Congressional Budget Office. Naturally, forcing the law to work as intended has resulted in huge losses...

Two companies that gave $200,000 to a pro-Jeb Bush super PAC are obscuring the identities of the real donors, a Washington watchdog group alleges in a complaint it filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. The complaint highlights how super political action committees - critical helpers for most of the 2016 presidential candidates - are not always as transparent as voters may think. Super PACs regularly file information about their donors to the FEC. But sometimes those donors are mysterious companies. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a political spending watchdog known as CREW, alleges that two limited-liability companies,...