Cruz's secret fundraising strength: a network of wealthy donors - Washington Post

Wealthy investors shot skeet with Sen. Ted Cruz in Park City, Utah, earlier this month. Conservative lawyers gathered in a clubby Washington restaurant last week to raise money for his presidential bid. And on Monday, billionaire technology entrepreneur Darwin Deason and five other wealthy Texans announced they were coming aboard his campaign.

For all of his bashing of “billionaire Republican donors” who “actively despise our base,” the anti-establishment senator from Texas is being bolstered by his own robust base of wealthy contributors. Cruz raised $5.2 million through the end of September from supporters who have given him the $2,700 maximum – making him number two so far in the GOP race for large donors, after Florida governor Jeb Bush, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.

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