Posted on 02/02/2016 6:30:54 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Approximately 119 previous Jeb Bush donors gave to Marco Rubio for the first time in December.
That’s part of an accelerating trend over the last few months as Bush’s candidacy slowly tanked during the fall, according to a BuzzFeed News data analysis of the most recent campaign finance reports.
Because FEC filings are long and complex, we used a script that matched first name, last name, and zip code to identify the donors. That’s a decent rule of thumb, but not perfect; it doesn’t account, for example, for people who moved between ZIP codes, for who donors misspelled their names, or for ZIP codes with multiple people with the same name. Hence, the word “approximately.”
And although it’s not a huge number of donors, it’s not insignificant either — the donors contributed approximately $249,500, per BuzzFeed News data analysis.
Here’s how many former Bush donors Rubio appears to have picked up each of the past few months:
During a debate in late October, Bush attacked Rubio’s Senate voting attendance — an attack that Rubio responded to by telling his fellow Floridian, “The only reason why you’re doing it now is because we’re running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you.” Since then, Bush hasn’t exactly backed away from the critique, and the pro-Bush super PAC Right to Rise has spent an estimated $20 million attacking Rubio.
Those attacks have been a long-reported source of discomfort for Bush donors, at least some of whom are also Rubio fans.
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Trump erred in skipping the debate.
He and Cruz are being laughed at by the GOPe for killing each other off. Doing the RINO’s work for them.
They should have stuck with the truce. Rubio never would have moved up.
Cruz won in the largest turnout in history in IOWA
Trump and Rubio practically tied for second place.. which isn’t the winner... they are runners up.
Rubio just beat the expectations game. He is now the establishment lane.
Cruz and Trump need to stay positive. Sell themselves don’t attack others. Positive messages always do better in the end.
Cruz and Trump are not fighting for the same crowd. It is not an even split.
While I concur with most of your statement there is considerable overlap of votes between Cruz and Trump and to a lesser degree Trump and Rubio.
The winner between Cruz and trump has to be able to hold most of the other’s supporters to win the nomination. Otherwise Rubio will take the nomination as we know he will get the supporters of Jeb!, Kasich, Christie, Fiorina. Cruz should get most of the voters of Carson, Santorium, and Huckabee.
The establishment state party organizations will work to help Rubio in most states. That makes it an uphill climb but a doable one.
Republicans doing what they do best - ripping each other to shreds instead of attacking the opposing party & its collectivistic ideology.
Does Rubio now have the stamina that Cruz has already demonstrated? We shall see.
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