Bush’s 2016 campaign says it raises $11.4 million in 16 days

The super-PAC supporting his candidacy, Right to Rise US, said it had raised $103 million since its start in January. Donelly is referring to the newest rules about campaign financing which allow a candidate to work with a super PAC as long as they are not officially running for any position.

Some Democrats, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, say Bush has changed his position to accommodate anti-immigration sentiment in the Republican Party.

Ex- US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joked about growing “long in the tooth” and expressed hopes for civility in the current presidential campaign as they spoke together at an event Thursday in Texas.

GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush has broken a political fundraising record with a massive campaign war chest in the first six months of the year, leading to the chronic questions about the influence of big money in politics. For instance, Restore Our Future, the super-PAC for 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney, had raised $12 million over the same time period, said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, an advocacy group. Right to Rise and other super PACs will file their official fundraising reports on July 31 with the Federal Election Commission. Before getting into the race, Bush served as honorary chairman of the super PAC and encouraged donors to donate to it.

While the super PAC can accept unlimited donations, Bush’s formal campaign operates in far more restrictive territory.

A spreadsheet of Bureau of Labor Statistics data that the Bush campaign sent to FactCheck.org shows that Florida added more jobs in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

In response to Bush’s fundraising totals, Sanders wrote in an email to supporters on Friday that, “This is not a democracy”.

Bush and the GOP have also refused to support ending another ploy used by bosses to cheat workers out of overtime – the scheme that misclassifies salaried workers as supervisors.

“When you become a grandfather you fall in love”, Clinton said as he shared a stage with Bush at the graduation of the inaugural class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program in Dallas.

Bush averaged an impressive $760,000 a day in his first two weeks as a candidate while the ex- secretary of state raised about million during the second quarter, averaging about $570,000 a day. “One by one, almost 300 of Jeb Bush’s top donors, from New York, Washington, Miami – even Americans living overseas in China and Germany – climbed aboard a trolley here” – in Kennebunkport, Maine – “for a trip a mile and a half down Ocean Avenue”.

Mr Bush’s campaign itself raised about $US11.4 million, with individual contributions directly to a campaign capped by law at $US2700.

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