Must-read WaPo: A small core of super-rich individuals are responsible for the record sums cascading into the coffers of super PACs for the 2016 elections, a dynamic that harks back to the financing of presidential campaigns in the Gilded… Continue reading

Politico: Paul Ryan’s massive $17 million fundraising haul this quarter was fueled by some of the nation’s richest people and large corporate political action committees, which cut five- and six-figure checks to the speaker’s burgeoning political operation, according to an… Continue reading

Trevor Timm Guardian column.

Politico: Karl Rove has publicly blasted Donald Trump as “a petty man consumed by resentment and bitterness” with little gravitas and almost no chance of beating Hillary Clinton. But privately, the super PAC conceived by Rove is suggesting to… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: A new fundraising obstacle has emerged this election year—potential individual and corporate donors to the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia have hesitated to contribute because of a possible nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said Ed Rendell,… Continue reading

Ken Vogel: First they spent tens of millions trying to boost their favorite presidential candidates, then they poured cash into ads attacking Donald Trump, and now some of the biggest donors on the right are turning their attention to the… Continue reading

Politico: Dispirited over a Republican Party primary that has devolved into an ugly, damaging fight, some of the GOP’s biggest financiers are reevaluating whether to invest in the 2016 presidential contest at all. Among those on the sidelines: Sheldon… Continue reading