$100 million
Fundraising goal of Jeb Bush’s allies for the first three months of this year — including a whopping $25 million haul in Florida — “in an effort to winnow the potential Republican presidential primary field with an audacious display of financial strength,” Bloomberg reports. “The targets were confirmed by multiple Republican sources involved in finance meetings with Bush’s team. They requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. One said the point is to persuade some establishment candidates to stay on the sidelines in the 2016 race.”
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