Posted on 12/01/2014 9:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz’s ambitions are clear. He’s a frequent visitor to Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s building a campaign staff.
But to make a serious White House bid takes serious money — at least $20 million by the time the first ballots are cast in early 2016. And that could be a challenge.
Although the Texas Republican is popular at conservative gatherings, Cruz has shown only modest success as a fundraiser. Like Ron Paul and Sarah Palin, he can probably count on showers of cash from enthusiastic legions of small-dollar donors, and that’s an important start.
But many major GOP donors and bundlers want nothing to do with a tea party agitator — particularly business interests dismayed by the federal-spending brinkmanship Cruz has advocated. That could limit his ability to elbow aside well-funded rivals....
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translation: He won’t be getting massive flows of soft money from the Chamber of Commerce and other RINO business groups.
I like him better already.
COULD stuggle? Non news. psychops.
I think that Ted Cruz may well have trouble raising big money and it is worrisome. The big Texas donors are holding back waiting to see if Jeb is going to run. Right now they won’t commit to Rick Perry either. These big donors tend to want a moderate. That’s how we always end up with one on the ballot.
” Cruz or any other conservative does indeed need cash. But not to the level the MSM increasingly promotes year after increasing year. What they need most of is a base that isn’t gonna turn tail and run AGAIN when the RINO wing starts screaming AGAIN.”
YEP
I don’t think so. Not if the dozens of online and snail mail requests I got from the RNC etal every week of the last election cycle were any indication.
Amusing the ways they thought of to shame me, alarm me etc.
But my money was going to SCF and directly to conservative candidates in my home state and others. I would definitely have given to Ted Cruz.
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