Hillary Clinton Is Backed By Major Republican Donors

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An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romney’s campaign were already donating more to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign than they had been donating to any one of the 2016 campaigns of (listed here in declining order below Clinton) Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore. Those major Romney donors also gave a little to two Democrats (other than to Hillary — who, as mentioned, received a lot of donations from these Republican donors): Martin O’Malley, Jim Web, and Lawrence Lessig. (Romney’s donors gave nothing to Bernie Sanders, and nothing to Elizabeth Warren. They don’t want either of those people to become President.)

Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who is even moderately attractive to big Republican donors.

In ascending order above Clinton, Romney’s donors were donating to: John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush. The top trio — of Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — together, received around 60% of all the money donated for the 2016 race by the people who had funded Mitt Romney’s 2012 drive for the White House.

So: the Democrat Hillary Clinton scored above 14 candidates, and below 6 candidates. She was below 6 Republican candidates, and she was above 11 Republican candidates (Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, and Jim Gilmore). The 6 candidates she scored below were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, and John Kasich.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-22/hillary-clinton-backed-major-republican-donors

 

[Cleaner44]

There is your establishment right there.

 

[openfire]

I was just about to post this, you beat me to it...

This should come as no surprise to any of us. Establishment indeed.

 

[Son_of_Liberty90]

Well, I guess it goes to show how much the major Republican donors care about the fate of this republic...

Oh wait...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

As this data is a little old, it seems like it might line up somewhat with last year's betting odds on the candidates. The glaring exception is Trump.

 

[otherone]

There is your establishment right there.

21st century bipartisanship is monopartisanship.

 

[Fivezeroes]

Anyone still think that Trump is establishment? When he is refusing lobbyist money which is in turn going towards buying off Hitlery, Trump is the anti-establishment.

 

[Todd]

Anyone still think that Trump is establishment? When he is refusing lobbyist money which is in turn going towards buying off Hitlery, Trump is the anti-establishment.

Yes. He's his own establishment.

Let's say your right. He'll still be moving in his circle of friends if he's elected. Another group of parasites to replace the old ones.

Tell me how a guy like Trump understands what my daily life looks like and my daily needs?

 

[euphemia]

Probably more than you think. He gets up and goes to work every day.

 

[CaptUSA]

Anyone still think that Trump is establishment? When he is refusing lobbyist money which is in turn going towards buying off Hitlery, Trump is the anti-establishment.

Oh, the naiveté.

By that same logic, George Soros would be "anti-establishment" if he chose to run his own campaign instead of funding others.

Seriously... Trump has an incredible ability to make people believe what they want to believe, regardless of all evidence to the contrary. We haven't had a candidate like that since, well, Obama.

 

[Cleaner44]

Oh, the naiveté.

By that same logic, George Soros would be "anti-establishment" if he chose to run his own campaign instead of funding others.

Seriously... Trump has an incredible ability to make people believe what they want to believe, regardless of all evidence to the contrary. We haven't had a candidate like that since, well, Obama.

We all know we aren't going to have any liberty candidate as our next president. Your choices are going to be Hilary, Trump, 3rd party statement vote or not voting.

We know that Hilary is full blown establishment.

Trump might be his own establishment, but he most certainly isn't a part of the Bush/Hilary establishment.

I welcome the "fuck you" to the Bush/Hilary establishment.

Maybe there is only a 5% chance of him being any good, but that is 5% more than we can get with a Bush/Hilary establishment candidate.

 

[CaptUSA]

Maybe there is only a 5% chance of him being any good, but that is 5% more than we can get with a Bush/Hilary establishment candidate.

That sounds like a ringing endorsement.

Maybe he should add that to his "Make America Great Again" slogan? "Vote Trump - there's a 5% chance he won't screw things up as bad as the other guys."

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Oh, the naiveté.

By that same logic, George Soros would be "anti-establishment" if he chose to run his own campaign instead of funding others.

Two things would have to happen to get on the list. First, you would first have to solicit for money. Secondly, they would have to agree to fund you. We know that Jeb, Cruz, Rubio and Hillary in particular had no qualms about hitting up big money donors.

 

[Todd]

Probably more than you think. He gets up and goes to work every day.

So does Kim Kardashian.