
Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal took a look at Donald Trump’s finances over the weekend, and suggested the outspoken billionaire might not be able to afford to keep a serious national campaign going past the first few states:
by John Hayward20 Dec 2015, 4:22 PM PST0

It can be taken as a sign of both ideological exhaustion and propaganda success that liberals still paint Republicans as the party of the Evil Rich, when it’s patently obvious there are plenty of big-money interests backing the Democrat Party.
by John Hayward16 Dec 2015, 8:09 PM PST0

Senate Republicans are planning to slip a provision into the omnibus spending bill which will allow political parties to spend more money on candidates, according to Politico.
by Michelle Fields25 Nov 2015, 4:59 PM PST0

Political analytics website Crowdpac has launched a new crowdfunding tool that allows any American–with any political ideology–to collect money to run for public office.
by Daniel Nussbaum18 Nov 2015, 12:36 PM PST0

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that immigration “is not even an issue” and that failure to pass the DISCLOSE Act is “a much bigger scandal than Hillary’s emails” on Friday. Maher said, “[Senator] Marco Rubio (R-FL), his campaign has
by Ian Hanchett16 Oct 2015, 8:39 PM PST0

A former Canadian Liberal legislator is calling for a permanent ban on political television and radio ads in Canada, citing the status quo of restrictions on political messaging in Britain as his model. In Britain, John Milloy says, “major political parties” are each apportioned an equal amount of time by on government-licensed television stations to make their pitches.
by Robert Kraychik21 Aug 2015, 2:24 PM PST0

There is still no word on when the campaign might be able to resume paying staff, or what fundraising threshold they want to meet first. Still, with the millions of dollars the PACs have to spend, and the campaign funds remaining sufficient to support Perry’s travel schedule, he should be able to sustain the campaign for several more months.
by Sarah Rumpf19 Aug 2015, 3:18 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker is getting a bump from donors.
by Alex Swoyer21 Jul 2015, 4:49 PM PST0

Breitbart News previously reported that Rubio’s campaign had raised more than $12 million. The final figures, as reported by Politico, are $12,942,732.44 raised (including $3.2 million transferred over from Rubio’s Senate campaign account) and $3,083,666.95 spent. This resulted in a total $9,859,065.49 cash on hand and a burn rate of 18.37 percent.
by Sarah Rumpf16 Jul 2015, 8:49 AM PST0

The Clinton campaign raised $47.5 million, spent $18.7 million, with a total debt of $574,000, and cash on hand of $28.85 million. This is a burn rate of nearly 40 percent, a figure that is generally considered to be high at this point in the campaign cycle.
by Sarah Rumpf16 Jul 2015, 4:50 AM PST0

The presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is reporting raising more than $12 million through the end of June, slightly more than the $11.4 million reported by the campaign of Rubio’s fellow Floridian, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL).
by Sarah Rumpf13 Jul 2015, 5:10 AM PST0

The paperwork to designate Jeb 2016, Inc. as the principal campaign committee for Bush has not yet been filed with the FEC, according to a search of the FEC’s online records performed by Breitbart News on Tuesday afternoon.
by Sarah Rumpf9 Jun 2015, 1:46 PM PST0

A favorite game played at the nexus of Big Government and Big Business is the imposition of regulatory schemes that crush small players and upstart market competitors, while imposing bearable costs on established titan companies with high-powered lobbying operations.
by John Hayward4 Jun 2015, 3:32 PM PST0

Gov. Scott Walker, a likely 2016 Republican contender, said he will not be able to go toe-to-toe with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in terms of financial resources in a hypothetical contest between the two for the Republican nomination. But he says that won’t matter, if he’s got “a good message and a good strategy.”
by Dr. Susan Berry18 May 2015, 1:49 PM PST0

Associated Press White House Correspondent Julie Pace argued that Hillary Clinton’s fundraising activity would be “uncomfortable” for voters who wanted campaign finance reform on Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Pace, in a discussion of Hillary Clinton’s fundraising in California
by Ian Hanchett7 May 2015, 1:19 PM PST0

Will American companies allow foreign money in political campaigns?
by John Pudner6 May 2015, 7:26 AM PST0

The price tag for the presidential race could top $5 billion, according to research by The Hill, a weekly political publication, so they are seeking contributions everywhere.
by Breitbart News28 Apr 2015, 5:08 PM PST0

The wife of a Florida man who was arrested after he landed a one-man gyrocopter on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol building to protest money in politics insists that her husband is a patriot.
by Warner Todd Huston19 Apr 2015, 7:45 AM PST0

Police arrested a man who steered his tiny, one-person helicopter onto the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, surprising spring tourists and prompting a temporary lockdown of the Capitol Visitor Center.
by Breitbart News15 Apr 2015, 1:18 PM PST0

The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 is claiming that four possible 2016 presidential candidates—Republicans Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, and Scott Walker, along with Democrat Martin O’Malley—are “violating campaign-finance laws by building campaign infrastructure without formally ‘testing the waters’ for a bid,” according to a Politico report.
by Dan Riehl31 Mar 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been hounded by not one, but two open-ended “John Doe” probes of his campaign finances, which invited criticisms of politically-motivated abuse by Democrat officials as they ground pointlessly along for years. The first of those investigations went
by John Hayward11 Feb 2015, 8:47 AM PST0