Imagine this: Donald Trump wooing delegates with rides on his gold-accoutered private jet. A wealthy Ted Cruz supporter wining and dining them at the Cleveland convention. Welcome bags stocked with expensive swag awaiting party activists in their hotel rooms, courtesy of a well-funded super PAC.Source: How far can campaigns go to win support from a Republican delegate?...
Karl Rove has publicly blasted Donald Trump as “a petty man consumed by resentment and bitterness” with little gravitas and almost no chance of beating Hillary Clinton.Source: Karl Rove-backed PAC warms to Trump...
First they spent tens of millions trying to boost their favorite presidential candidates, then they poured cash into ads attacking Donald Trump, and now some of the biggest donors on the right are turning their attention to the delegate fight.Source: Billionaires fund anti-Trump delegate push...
LAS VEGAS — Dispirited over a Republican Party primary that has devolved into an ugly, damaging fight, some of the GOP’s biggest financiers are reevaluating whether to invest in the 2016 presidential contest at all.Source: Sheldon Adelson and top GOP donors retreat to the sidelines...
First in an endless series of posts on how news organizations are approaching this summer’s Republican and Democratic conventions.Source: CNN hires ‘delegate analysts’ in runup to a possibly contested GOP convention...
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a campaign stop at Waukesha County Exposition Center, Monday, April 4, in Waukesha, Wis. | AP PhotoSource: Cruz fundraiser heard toeing donations rule...
Shining light on Clinton ‘dark money’ A look at specific contributions to the super PACs supporting Clinton shows just how difficult it can be to unravel who is really writing the checks.Source: How ‘Citizens United’ is helping Hillary Clinton win the White House...
If Donald Trump wants to ward off defeat at a contested convention, he’s got more than just a vote of the delegates to worry about.Source: Trump has more than math to worry about in Cleveland...
On April 6, a proposed statewide California initiative was cleared to begin collecting signatures. The measure would require the state to permit registered voters to sign statewide and local initiatives electronically.Source: California Initiative for Electronic Signatures Begins to Circulate...
