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$20 million
Amount Bernie Sanders’s campaign has raised over the last month, “an enormous haul that backs up the campaign’s assertion that it will have enough money for a long, hard-fought nominating fight against Hillary Clinton,” the New York Times reports. Politico: “More than 770,000 people gave to the Vermont senator’s bid in January, with online contributions averaging just $27, the campaign said. And Sanders has so far received more than 3.25 million contributions — more than any presidential campaign at this point in the cycle ever.”
70%
Of the approximately $150 million spent on advertisements in the 2016 presidential race has come from outside groups, NBC News reports. “But there is a significant difference by party: 83% of the Republican ad dollars, especially in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire, have come from Super PACs and other outside groups, versus just a mere 2% for Democrats.”
You just can’t get the $5 million to $10 million without whoring yourself out and I’m not going to do that.
— Brothel owner Dennis Hof (L), quoted by the Reno Gazette Journal, on his decision not to run for U.S. Senate.
$37 million
Amount Hillary Clinton’s campaign reported for fourth-quarter fundraising toward her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, The Hill reports. “That brings her total funds from 2015 to $112 million, smashing through the goal her campaign set of raising $100 million.”
$23 million
Amount Ben Carson’s campaign raised in the last three months of 2015 — one-upping Ted Cruz’s fourth-quarter haul of nearly $20 million,” Politico reports.
$20 million
Amount Sen. Ted Cruz raised for his presidential campaign in the fourth quarter — a 66% increase over the previous three-month period, the Wall Street Journal reports. “The $20 million haul in the final three months of 2015 is up sharply from the $12.2 million raised in the third quarter, a bonanza that came as polls showed Mr. Cruz rising to a top-tier candidate from a back-of-the-pack contender in the crowded GOP candidate field. … By the end of the third quarter, Mr. Cruz already had more cash on hand than any other GOP candidate.”
$1.2 million
Amount of online donations the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders raised in 48 hours “after research surfaced from a super PAC backing Hillary Clinton that linked the Vermont senator to the ‘extreme’ views of Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party,” the Washington Post reported. “The burst of money Sanders received online was unprecedented, according to a statement Thursday by Erin Hill, executive director of ActBlue, an online fundraising service used by Sanders and scores of Democrats.”
It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or being elected president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. Senators and congress members.
– Former President Jimmy Carter, quoted by the Huffington Post.
$11 million
Amount Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s super PAC has raised, Politico reports. “Kasich’s super PAC haul places him in the middle tier of candidates, behind Jeb Bush ($103 million), Ted Cruz ($37 million), Scott Walker ($20 million), Rick Perry ($16.8 million), and Marco Rubio ($16 million). Chris Christie’s super PAC has also reportedly raised around $11 million.”
3%
Amount of the $11.4 million Jeb Bush’s campaign raised during its first two weeks that came from donors who gave less than $200, National Journal reports. “Small contributors gave Bush only $368,023, the campaign’s federal filings show. Donors who gave the legal maximum of $2,700 accounted for more than 80 percent of Bush’s total haul.”
