Cruz nets $12 million for presidential bid, Rubio $6 million

A source who attended the gathering and requested anonymity confirmed the details to the Guardian, where campaign officials acknowledged that Rubio’s fundraising was slow over the summer – citing as factors the entry into the race of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and other candidates in July. His campaign has raised roughly $18 million from almost 100,000 donors since launching in April, according to the figures provided. That money will go to the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee.

So far it appears that another political outsider, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, is leading in quarterly fundraising.

Rubio, like most of the 2016 presidential field, also benefits from an allied super PAC and nonprofit group that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money on his behalf. That’s precisely what Carson had inside the financial institution after expenditures, recommending that in fact Rubio’s group is allocating its services more discreetly compared to a a few of his opponents. The officials said the campaign raised more than $1 million online in September alone, and expects October to be its “best month so far”. And the summer months gave Cruz two chances to wage high-profile fights that may have motivated even more low-dollar giving: his unsuccessful attempt to defund Planned Parenthood and his crusade to thwart the White House’s deal with Iran.

In announcing its third-quarter total, Cruz’s campaign sought to project momentum by noting it doubled its total number of donations during the period.

“That’s the strength of we the people rising up, and I got to tell you, it scares the living daylight out of the Washington cartel”, he told conservative host Mark Levin.