The Rod Martin Report: July 25, 2015 - The Most Important Political Fact of the Week

Ted Cruz has over 120,000 individual donors, vs. just over 12,000 for Jeb Bush. It matters. And there's more.

by Rod D. Martin
July 25, 2015

Most important political fact of the week: Ted Cruz has over 120,000 individual donors, vs. just over 12,000 for Jeb Bush.

For comparison, the entire Republican field combined had just about 71,000 donors in July of 2007.

Trump is sweeping the polls, but Ted is sweeping the people. It's certainly adding up on the money side: Ted raised $52 million in 90 days; Jeb -- with two ex-Presidents in the family and an air of inevitability -- took six months to raise his $103 million. And in hard money -- actual contributions to his campaign rather than mega-checks to a Super PAC -- Ted beat Jeb $14 million to $11 million in half the time.

The rest of the field isn't even close. Except for Rubio ($41 million), the next best performance came from Rick Perry: a paltry $18M. Rand Paul managed $7M. Rick Santorum got $600,000: barely enough to cover his sweater vest bill. And interestingly enough, our "inevitable" future President Hillary Clinton only managed $10M more than…