Posted on 08/08/2015 6:37:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The votes won’t come until next year, but North Texans are already busy weighing in on the 2016 race for the White House.
They, like others nationwide, are voicing support for candidates the only way they know how — with their pocketbooks.
Texas donors, including scores from Tarrant County, have sent over $11.5 million to more than a dozen candidates. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas drew the most for Republicans, at $5.7 million, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the way for Democrats, at $2 million.
And political observers say this is just the beginning.
“The gifts until now are seed money,” said Jim Riddlesperger, a political science professor at TCU. “They are just trying to get their ‘favorite sons’ into a position where they can take advantage of opportunity should it arise.
“Serious money will begin to pour into candidates who look as if they are viable,” he said. “This will be a very expensive campaign, but the contributions so far are only small pittances. Big money will come when there is ‘mist clearing’ and there are only two or three serious candidates for the nomination.”
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the only other candidate to join Cruz and Clinton in Texas’ $1 million club, picking up $1.1 million during the Federal Election Commission’s second fundraising quarter...
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Heh heh heh.
Cruz is far superior to native son Jebbie, but Texans like a Bush no matter what.
$5.7 million compared to $1.1 with all the ties John Ellis has there? He might as well bow-out now and throw his support to Kasich or Walker.
$5.7 million for the Tedster and only $1.1 for little Jebbie.
Even Clinton is beating little Jebbie in the fundraising.
Jeb Bush will not be the nominee.
That, and his terminal case of foot in mouth disease, is why Rick Perry will never see the inside of the White House. Not this election cycle, not the next, not ever.
I giggle every time I think about Ted Cruz calling them the lying Washington Cartel only to go back to DC and walk among them. I bet they scatter and doors slam as he walks down the hallways.
If we make him president the cockroaches will be groveling outside the Oval office door.
For that he deserves an enormous amount of praise. He also deserves to be POTUS, certainly more so than the star of a reality show.
I knew he should have brought the guitar to the debate...
For Cruz to be the best he’d have to change his position on legal immigration, on which he is quite liberal. He is on record as supporting a 500% increase in H1B visas, and for doubling legal immigration in general. That is pretty much the same as wanting to increase the annual inflow of natural and future democrats.
Demographics is destiny.
Cruz, with his faults, is still more conservative than any other candidate. Certainly more so than lifelong liberal Donald Trump.
I won't argue with that point. But Trump is doing Cruz a huge service by taking on the GOPe, Cruz cannot do it alone.
And I have said many tines, I can appreciate what Trump is doing. But that does not mean that as a lifelong liberal he deserves the Republican nomination.
What one deserves is not often what happens in the so-called USA.
That’s a good point, but anti-Cruz people don’t know that, nor do pro-Cruz people.
Of course not. If that were so Hillary would have donned an orange jumpsuit long ago.
That may be. I don’t trust Trump. I like that he’s spoken so bluntly about illegal immigration, but he has not articulated a vision for conservative immigration reform. His half-baked plan (which we’ve heard before from others) to deport and then allow illegal aliens back in is nonsense.
But with Cruz it is very disappointing that he is such a supporter of unending and ever-increasing mass legal immigration. That it is and will continue importing (on net) millions of future democrats is obvious. Why can’t Cruz see that? In another 10 years or so someone like Cruz will struggle to win even in Texas, mostly because of mass legal immigration
Otherwise Cruz is generally excellent.
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