Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump sent out his first fundraising email on Tuesday, where he said he would match the donations dollar for dollar throughout the next 48 hours.
“I was wrong. I was sure that if Trump became the Republican nominee, this team would step up and the support would come pouring in,” Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wrote in an fundraising email, declaring that fundraising “has actually slowed down a little bit.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appears to be running short on cash ahead of the expensive June primary in California, having spent much of his money in states where Hillary Clinton has won.
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw dollar bills at Hillary Clinton’s motorcade as it approached actor George Clooney’s home in Studio City, Los Angeles as she arrived for a $33,400-per-person fundraiser he and his wife Amal were hosting for the former secretary of state on Saturday evening.
On Sunday morning — hours after hosting a $33,400-per-person fundraiser for Hillary Clinton — Hollywood star George Clooney blasted political fundraisers as “obscene” in an interview with Chuck Todd of NBC News’ Meet the Press.
The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Rep. Robert Pittenger, is on a week-long trip to South America to investigate first-hand the potential of the region to fund a variety of terrorist groups that could use the money to attack America.
Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton will return to Hollywood later this month for a series of fundraising events, including at least one “Evening with Hillary” event scheduled for March 24.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian released Monday, top Hollywood editor Janice Min — who heads one of the entertainment industry’s most influential publications, The Hollywood Reporter — confirmed that the traditionally reliable support base for Hillary Clinton among the industry’s biggest high-dollar donors has eroded in the 2016 election cycle.
The Rubio campaign announced that they raised $14.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 with $10.4 million cash-on-hand.
Democratic rivals Ro Khanna and Rep. Mike Honda are engaged in a heated battle for the the eight-term incumbent congressman’s seat.
While insurgent Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is spending Wednesday morning in the Oval Office, meeting with President Obama, his rival Hillary Clinton is kicking it that night with a different celebrity: Jon Bon Jovi.
Dr. Kelli Ward raised more than $660,000 last year to launch her campaign to oust Sen. John McCain, Ward’s campaign tells Breitbart News exclusively.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is trying to raise money for 2016 House races with its own version of Donald Trump’s infamous “Make America Great Again” hat.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, one of California’s most prominent Republicans, told Breitbart News Wednesday that the Jeb Bush campaign used his name on a fundraising invitation without permission.
A black Texas state representative who said his conviction for ambulance chasing by a Montgomery County, Texas, jury was a “modern day lynching” has started a GoFundMe.com account. He states that the funds will be used “to raise the money to clear my name and continue being a Public Servant!”
Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward (R-Lake Havasu City) announced Wednesday that she will resign her elected position and will work full-time to defeat entrenched D.C. Republican, Sen. John McCain.
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.
LOS ANGELES — On Monday and Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden visits Los Angeles in search of more political cash. It is the first trip he has made to the area since September, when rumors still floated that he would seek the presidency in 2016.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is calling on fellow presidential candidates to return “dark money” sent to Super PACs. According to a Trump campaign press release, the billionaire sent notices earlier this week “disavowing nine unauthorized Super PAC’s claiming to support him in his bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States and subsequently demanding the return of all funds raised.”
Arizona state Senator Kelli Ward raised $525,000 in the first quarter in her pursuit to oust five-term U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Ward raised the sum from 2,100 individuals, according to the campaign.
Dr. Ben Carson, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, is furious that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) would use his birthday to try to boost its fundraising coffers.
Good news for former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX): – the campaign has resumed paying some of its staff after financial issues forced them to freeze pay.
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.
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.
As Rick Perry’s presidential campaign suspended paying staff, Breitbart News has learned that “over ninety percent” of the staff were staying on.
For some wealthy donors, it doesn’t matter who takes the White House in 2016—as long as the president’s name is Clinton or Bush.
Cruz received more than 175,000 donations, and the average contribution was $81. Donors from every state in the nation and five territories backed him, and he has donors in 48 percent of all postal ZIP codes in America. Outside groups backing Cruz have also raised an addition $38 million.
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.
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.
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) has roughly eight million dollars raised since launching his campaign about two months ago, on May 5th.
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).
In a statement provided to Breitbart News, Perry campaign manager Jeff Miller touted the collective fundraising efforts. “Americans are looking for a tested leader with an optimistic vision for the future, and we are pleased with the broad support Gov. Perry is receiving across the country,” said Miller. “Governor Perry is well positioned and between the campaign and independent sources, the necessary funds will be in place to run a competitive, successful campaign.”
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) raked in an impressive more than $7 million in the last Federal Election Commission (FEC) fundraising quarter which includes receipts through the joint fundraising committee, his campaign told Breitbart News exclusively.
Rubio’s official campaign has not released its fundraising totals yet. Sources close to the campaign told Breitbart News that they would release numbers soon and expressed confidence that the campaign would have the resources needed to be competitive.
The self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders is packing in listeners and pulling in cash. Some 10,000 supporters came to see him speak in Madison, Wisconsin this week, and he raised $15 million between April and July.
The numbers, provided to Breitbart News by Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts, are nothing short of incredible for a first-time political candidate’s effort. Since March 3, Carson has raised $10.5 million. Some $8.3 million of that is in the quarter that just wrapped Tuesday evening. Since March 3, he’s earned 209,940 separate donations to his presidential effort—and 151,060 unique donors.
President Obama and Hillary Clinton weren’t the only two top-level Democrats on the West Coast this weekend – on Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) fired up the progressive base at a pair of L.A.-area fundraising events to benefit his 2016
In the wake of the horrific shooting deaths of nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina church on Wednesday, comedian Marc Maron was not sure his interview with President Obama was going to go on as scheduled.
Six weeks ago, the Huffington Post’s lead article was “Why Hillary Can’t Lose.” But the S.S. Clinton campaign that steams into southern California on Friday increasingly looks like the arrogant crew of the Titanic that continued to run full-throttle after hitting an iceberg, because their ship was “Practically Unsinkable.”
Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders, an underdog in comparison to his competitor Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential nomination, drew larger crowds over the weekend than Clinton did at an event Monday in New York City.
