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So You Think You Want to Run for President …
Just ask Jeb Bush, whose super PAC alone raised more than $110 million for 2016.
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Just ask Jeb Bush, whose super PAC alone raised more than $110 million for 2016.
The donation was to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC with ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. That total surpasses the $82.6 million the couple spent on the 2016 cycle.Â
Phillips is the rare House candidate this year not accepting any PAC money, whether from corporations, labor unions or other politicians.
But Soto had endorsements from the AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Organization of Women and the League of Conservation Voters PAC.
Club for Growth PAC backed Bright, who had waged an unsuccessful primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2014. The former state legislator also had the support of Texas Sen.
Jenkins trailed Attorney General Patrick Morrisey 40 percent to 34 percent in a poll released this week that was commissioned by a pro-Morrisey super PAC.Â
The Alliance’s political arm is Great America PAC, which says it raised and spent $30 million supporting Trump’s campaign.
And he uses his pledge not to accept PAC money, of any sort, to draw a contrast between him and Paulsen. But self-funding is a relative term.
Craig, who started the Americans for Self-Rule PAC, said she already had some idea of whom her group could target next. Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett and Florida Sen.
Saxby Chambliss and Ending Spending Action Fund, an establishment-friendly Republican super PAC, endorsed Handel.Â