Posted on 02/12/2016 5:36:22 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
Some of the biggest Republican donors, who collectively have contributed tens of millions of dollars to shape the presidential race, are tightening their purse strings out of frustration with their inability to boost their favored candidates, or to slow Donald Trump.
Rather than continuing to write huge checks to support the cluster of establishment candidates jockeying to emerge as the leading alternative to Trump, a billionaire real estate showman roundly despised by the GOP elite, these donors have mostly retreated to the sidelines. They're watching anxiously, hoping that the field sorts itself out, according to interviews with a half dozen major donors or their representatives.
Many of the donors are urging the deep-pocketed groups they've already funded to begin spending against Trump, even as some recognize the potential for such spending to backfire, and are increasingly questioning the efficacy of big-money advertising campaigns more generally.
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The Cheap Labor Express is APOPLECTIC!
Now, suddenly the mainstream media is accurate and helping conservatives?
They have been able to stick us with an amnesty candidate in every election since the last amnesty.
The citizens seem to want something different this time.
Let’s lock the Freezer door and let the MFs die.
She got all the New Hampshire super delegates, and so it goes with the Dem stacked deck.
There’s no attempt to “help” anyone in this link. It’s just about how no one is giving anyone any mega-money anymore and all they want to do is stop Trump. I’m sorry if those facts upset you.
What has YOUR candidate done lately ?
If Trump gets the nomination, you will see these mega-donors move to Hillary. It is the people versus the corporate paymasters and special interests.
That’s just it, they don’t care if they lose, they just want to stop us from electing anyone who would stop the Cheap Labor Express.
They’ll back Hillary if we nominate Trump.
Why not, heck Trump himself might even donate to her again.
Money burnin’ a hole in their pockets but Trump won’t take it.
The Minnesota mega-donor Hubbard, who has donated hundreds of thousands to the Koch network over the years (including at least $50,000 last year), but did not attend the winter meeting, said he planned to call Koch operatives to make the case that they should intervene.
“It’s time to start educating,” he said. “It’s obvious that there is no way that we’re going to be able to make Mexico pay for a wall and all this other nonsense. I don’t think anybody’s done an effective job of pointing that out. Hopefully, we’ll have somebody like Americans for Prosperity and the Kochs who will step up to the plate and do it,” he said.
But, he warned, there’s a risk to it. “It could help Trump. It helps him say ‘The establishment is against me. They’re out to get poor me. I’m the victim.’ “
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/gop-megadonors-fundraising-freeze-219228#ixzz400cdTr00
See! Mexico won’t pay for the wall! Minnesota mega-donor Hubbard said so.
If Trump doesn’t get the nomination because the GOPe will pull a fast one, that could happen or he could run as a third party candidate. He has my vote regardless.
Truth. What happens when even the rigged won’t work? Blow it all up Mr. Trump. Time to renovate. Trump 2016!
He is also seriously damaging the political consultant class.
Hubbard needs to worry about Minnesota. The Minneapolis/St Paul area is rapidly deteriorating.
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