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When it comes to contributions, Trump doesn’t play in the big leagues
Donald Trump at the Fox News debate on Thursday. Donald Trump was pretty much the only Republican presidential candidate at last night’s prime time Fox News debate to find fault with the current...
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Cruz prays for clergy support, but Clinton’s blessings tally higher
GOP White House candidate Ted Cruz on Monday at a Faith & Freedom event in Anderson, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt) Ted Cruz is on a crusade to lock down what he calls “the evangelical bracket,”...
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Attacks on low taxes for hedge fund managers will face fierce fight
Hedge fund manager and Democratic philanthropist George Soros (AP Photo/Thomas Peter, Pool) Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush‘s tax plan, announced Wednesday, lent some bipartisan cred to mostly Democratic...
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Rubio campaign gives $120,000 in refunds for excessive donations
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) this year. (Flickr/Marc Nozell) Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) presidential campaign has given back more than $120,000 to individuals who donated more money than the campaign...
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Cruz’ islands strategy meets rough waters
Sen. Ted Cruz hopes to clean up in presidential primaries in U.S. territories, including the Virgin Islands. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a strategy to take his...
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Leading presidential candidates have nationwide financial support; many...
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), shown at a campaign stop in Iowa this week, raised about 2.5 percent of his third-quarter funds from the Washington metro area. (Jessica...
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Lawyers backing Clinton, financiers flocking to Bush: Who’s funding the race...
Ben Carson and Hillary Clinton received nearly $6 million from retirees between July 1 and September 30. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) Lawyers are showing a lot of love for Hillary Clinton, while Wall Street...
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Fourth quarter flurry, or how to assess the presidential filings
President George W. Bush, shown here in Thailand in October 2003, holds the record for contributions in the fourth quarter of the off year of an election cycle, at $46.7 million. (AP Photo/Scott...
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$100 million floods into presidential super PACs in second half of 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a rally in Des Moines on Sunday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Well-known liberal and conservative political donors left the sidelines and injected tens...
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Super PACs allow Wall Street to dominate presidential giving in 2015
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush saw his support from Wall Street nearly vanish over the last six months. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) The securities and investment industry flexed serious financial muscle in...
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Bush, Rubio nearly even in ad numbers, as are Clinton and Sanders
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in South Carolina this week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) A report published Thursday on advertising in the presidential race underscores the starkly different ways in which the...
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Presidential super PACs — especially Priorities — pick up more million-dollar...
Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, suspended his campaign Saturday. Bush failed to gain traction despite support from a super PAC that raised more than $100 million in...
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Presidential hopefuls stretch the truth talking about campaign finance
Donald Trump’s claim that he’s self-funding his campaign comes with a caveat. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The financing of candidates’ campaigns has become a central theme of the primaries, although —...
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Exiled from Koch orbit, American Future Fund turns to GOP establishment for cash
GOP front-runner Donald Trump accused Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) of being tied to American Future Fund’s attacks on him. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Last week, real estate mogul and current GOP presidential...
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Two top donors have already backed two losing horses in the presidential. And...
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., returned to work as a U.S. Senator on Thursday, March 17, 2016. In the final month of his presidential campaign, his super PAC won over top donors with prior allegiances....
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Big money — if not the GOP establishment — has been with Ted Cruz from the start
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is the first choice of three of this cycle’s top five contributors to outside groups so far. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) This piece was cross-posted...
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How this year’s super PACs got so fat — day by day by day…
The political fortunes of Jeb Bush shone a lot brighter exactly one year ago tomorrow — that day, the super PAC supporting the former Florida governor brought in more than $5 million. (AP Photo/Andrew...
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$300 million and counting: Rubio, Trump help drive $100 million in outside...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Wisconsin this week. Outside groups have spent more than $6 million attacking him in the last six weeks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) It’s been a month...
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Financing the conventions — even more cash from some usual suspects
The Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland will be site of the summer’s GOP convention. (Flickr/Erik Drost) The last time the Democratic and Republican parties had to stage the quadrennial...
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Hedge fund megadonors capitalize on offshore opportunities
Citadel Advisors head Kenneth Griffin testified at a House hearing at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) On the list of the largest U.S. companies by market value, those...
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