Donald Trump reveals his net worth. Color us green - with
envy, or embarrassment. Donald Trump filed his personal financial disclosure
this week, and we were gobsmacked. Everyone believed The Donald had a ton of
money, but few - including us! - would have guessed he was worth $10 billion.
Hmmm. That means he could write a $1,000 check to every likely GOP caucus or
primary voter in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and still have ...
about $9.5 billion left.
A look at the candidates' financial pictures Federal
Election Committee reports filed this week show how much money each campaign
has raised. Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton
on the Democratic side and Jeb! Bush on the Republican side
were the leaders in the fundraising wars. Clinton raised $46.7 million.
Long-shot Bernie Sanders raised $15.2 million.
Jeb! Bush's official campaign numbers were lower than many
expected, at $11.4 million. Ted Cruz came in second place on the Republican side,
with $14.3 million. Marco Rubio placed third with $8.9 million. (Rand Paul
raised $6.9 million).
Perhaps more importantly, Jeb's affiliated Super PAC
reported raising more than $100 million - but Ted Cruz's affiliated Super PAC
reported raising $37, meaning he'll have a combined $52 million spent on his
behalf.
Hillary Clinton has a new - and completely different – email
problem now. For months, we at TPPCF have been reporting on Hillary Clinton's email
scandal and about how she violated State Department protocol with her exclusive
and unprecedented use of an unsecure personal email account. But this week,
Clinton has an entirely new email problem that could cripple her campaign.
Back in April, Clinton campaign staffers sent out an email
to the email distribution list from Mrs. Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
The list had over 2.5 million email address and names - a strong email list for
any campaign on Day One. This week, the campaign staffers set out to clean up
the email list and delete the inactive accounts. The result? Fewer than 100,000
of the email addresses were still active. This lack of an email list will
hamper the Clinton campaign's ability to recruit volunteers, host events, and,
most of all, fundraise.
For more on Hillary's latest campaign fail, see this
article:
FoxNews no longer the only debate. FoxNews will host its
debate for the Republican presidential candidates the first week of August. Fox
announced a few months ago its strict criteria for determining who will be able
to participate in the debate. Fox will limit the number of candidates to 10,
taking the top ten based on national polls.
That rankled many, who thought the criteria for inclusion
were too strict. So three newspapers - the New Hampshire Union Leader, the
Cedar Rapids Gazette, and Charleston Post and Courier – are joining forces to
co-host a candidate forum three days before the Fox debate, so that all the GOP
candidates get a chance to appear together. The purpose is to have a wider
debate for more candidates.
The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato, one of the most insightful
academics we know, published his take on the FoxNews and CNN debate criteria
this week, and it reads as if he's been reading our newsletter. Take a look:
New grading system for GOP candidates Conservative Review,
which many people in the Tea Party Patriots network have come to rely on for
its excellent commentary and political reporting is now offering voters,
especially in early primary states, a new grading system of the GOP
presidential candidates. The profiles are extremely thorough and provide voters
a detailed look at where each candidate stands on the most pressing
conservative issues. The profiles of each GOP presidential candidate can be
viewed here
[http://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/07/~/link.aspx?_id=A432F33F3D134F818252F79AA8C3309A&_z=z]
That's all for this week. Keep fighting for freedom!
Jenny Beth Martin, Chairman, Tea Party Patriots
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