Outside Donors Split Between Cruz and Rubio

“The wealthy donors who have built a powerful shadow Republican Party of outside groups are rapidly cleaving into two mutually hostile and deep-pocketed factions, complicating efforts to deny the party’s nomination to Donald Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“Many of the Wall Street financiers who have been mainstays of Republican ‘super PACs’ in the six years since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision have rallied behind Sen. Marco Rubio… But the steady rise of Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party favorite reviled by party leaders, has unleashed a new counter-establishment of conservative donors, some from outside the universe of traditional Republican giving.”