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$4.6 million
Amount Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign still owes, according to the latest FEC filing.
57%
Republicans now have a favorable view of Trump, compared to 40% who have an unfavorable one, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. “That marks a complete reversal from a late-May Post-ABC poll, in which 65% of Republicans saw Trump unfavorably. Donald Trump’s popularity has surged among Republicans after dominating several news cycles with his anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.”
$86 million
Amount big-money groups have raised to support a handful of second- and third-tier candidates, Politico reports. “Concerns are mounting among top donors and party elites that an influx of huge checks into the GOP primary will hurt the party’s chances of retaking the White House. Long-shot candidates propped up by super PACs and other big-money groups will be able to linger for months throwing damaging barbs at establishment favorites who offer a better chance of victory, the thinking goes.”
$377 million
Amount donors have poured into the 2016 presidential contest, which is barely underway, an Associated Press review shows. “Almost half of the money disclosed so far will benefit just two of the expected 22 candidates — both of whom have former presidents in the immediate families: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush.”
I think there’s a small possibility that this gentleman is a phantom candidate. Mr. Trump has a close friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton. They were at his last wedding. He has contributed to the Clintons’ foundation. He has contributed to Mrs. Clinton’s Senate campaigns. All of this is very suspicious.
— Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), “whose district saw two phony candidates run in a pair of elections before he took office, has taken to Spanish-language media to suggest that Donald Trump’s campaign could be a Democratic scheme to hurt the Republican Party,” the Miami Herald reports.
17%
Donald Trump’s lead over the Republican presidential field, followed by Jeb Bush at 14%, Scott Walker at 8%, Ted Cruz at 6%, Marco Rubio at 5%, Ben Carson at 4%, Mike Huckabee at 4% and Chris Christie at 3%, according to a new Suffolk University/USA TODAY national poll. Said pollster David Paleologos: “Trump is making daily headlines in advance of the primary season. This has vaulted him to the top of the pack on the backs of conservative voters.”
$51 million
Total amount Ted Cruz has raised in the first quarter of his campaign, including $14 million through his campaign committee and another $37 million through a constellation of super PACs set up to aid his campaign, Chris Cillizza notes, placing him second to Jeb Bush’s $114 million.
My initial impression is that this deal is far worse than I ever dreamed it could be and will be a nightmare for the region, our national security and eventually the world at large.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling Bloomberg that the newly announced deal between Iran and six world powers is “akin to declaring war on Israel and the Sunni Arabs,” and will be a huge problem for Hillary Clinton.
Spouses matter. When your spouse is not in-sync with you — particularly on cultural issues, moral issues — you tend not to be as active on those issues.
— Rick Santorum, warning that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s dissonance with his wife on same-sex marriage could cause him to be less “active” in his opposition, The Hill reports.
Can you envision Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton negotiating with ‘El Chapo’, the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison? Trump, however, would kick his ass!
— Donald Trump, using the escape of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman last weekend to criticize his presidential rivals, Politico reports.
