Hillary took in $45million this quarter. Cruz took in $10million. The $50million includes his PACs.
Hillary’s small contributors are of dubious origin. She has the democrat union party machine at her back. They can churn out more than 500,000 small donors of $60 to $80 with a couple of weeks worth of phone calls and emails. And they have the union hierarchy to make sure the donors donate.
Ted’s in a field that is split 8 ways. For him to get more than $10 million from 175,000 donations (120,000 unique donors, $81 avg) is a huge success. Also his grassroots turnout has all the other candidates beat by a long shot. He will continue to grow his support base and eventually the rest of the field will fold in with his campaign. His fundraising is awesome at this stage where he started from near nothing whereas Hillary started with the democrat machine. Once Ted has sewn up the GOP field, he will put Hillary’s numbers to shame.