Jeb Bush's donors show how much he is the candidate of America's top 1% and not a man of the people.
Small donor myth debunked
The heavily touted grassroots fundraising engines were largely spin, a POLITICO analysis shows.
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and TARINI
At the low end was Jeb Bush, whose campaign paced the field of Republican presidential hopefuls by raising $11.4 million in the second quarter. But only three percent of that came from donors who gave $200 or less. By contrast, Bush raised 88 percent of his cash from donors who gave the primary maximum of $2,700 or more – the highest such percentage in the field.
For a comparison here's where the leading Democratic candidates stand:
By far the leader in small-dollar fundraising was Bernie Sanders. His insurgent campaign for the Democratic nomination raised more than 75 percent of its $13.6-million haul from donors who gave $200 or less, versus only 2 percent from maximum donors.
Clinton’s fundraising juggernaut of a campaign for the Democratic nomination, which repeatedly pledged to build “a grassroots-driven organization,” revealed in its FEC report that 67 percent of its field-leading $47 million in primary-election cash came from donors contributing $2,700 or more. Only 18 percent came from donations of $200 or less.
Bush's wealthy constituency includes many of the same oligarchs who supported his brother.