The Fight for Romney Donors Begins

The Fix: “No one can argue that Mitt Romney knows how to raise money. He collected more than $1.1 billion in the 2012 campaign, relying on contacts he built during his time as Massachusetts governor, head of the Salt Lake City Olympics, years working in private equity, and as chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association. And now, with Romney insisting that he will not run again in 2016, literally hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of Republican money is up for grabs — and donors say that they are already being courted by several potential presidential candidates.”

The frontrunner in this race is Jeb Bush: “Every single Romney donor we spoke with this week listed the former Florida governor as their top choice.”