Ted Cruz drops fundraising 'money bomb'

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 6/24/15 | David Drucker

[cotton1706]

Sen. Ted Cruz is imploring supporters to donate $1 million to his presidential campaign by Tuesday, saying in a recorded email appeal that positive fundraising results are important to shaping the media narrative of the 2016 contest.

The Texas Republican proved to be a surprisingly prodigious and effective fundraiser in the opening weeks of his White House bid. He raised $4 million online his first week and has told reporters that super PACs backing his candidacy have "banked" an eye-popping $37 million.

Now, Cruz is asking his backers to help him close the second fundraising quarter strong to help him put up a good showing against Republican front-runner Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

"I'm sure that you've seen that both Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton have announced their candidacies for president, just like everyone knew they would, and they're both well on their way to raising well over $100 million each. Well, we're not going to raise $100 million. But we don't need to raise that much money," Cruz said. "We have just days before the most important deadline of the 2016 presidential campaign. On June 30, every single presidential campaign must file reports with the Federal Election Commission, reporting exactly how much money we have raised.

[X-spurt]

Same here.

Those that don’t put their money where their mouth is, need to remember to not complain.

[Luircin]

Dude, I’m buying New Coke before I’m buying that statement.

[trebb]

I just gave money to Ted Cruz, both to help him and to assist in scaring the republican Establishment!

I'm donating monthly and am sorry to say I didn't cough up a bit more for this - on the flip side, if I donated every time I got a request from him/his campaign, I would be broke. Will stay the course and hope he makes it.