Is Rand Paul building a grassroots fundraising juggernaut?

 All of the talk surrounding the Republican Presidential candidates lately has revolved around Donald Trump and some of the latest polls actually show him leading the field on a national level. This bothers the Republican establishment for obvious reasons because their chosen candidate is Jeb Bush.

  While Donald Trump is getting all the headlines, and while Jeb Bush is sure to get all the establishment money, there is one candidate who quietly behind the scenes may be building a grassroots funding juggernaut and that person is my candidate of choice–the only Republican who does not seem to be a selective Constitutionalist, Rand Paul. He has raised $7 million in the last quarter alone and he has done it through grassroots fundraising.

  Here is more:

What’s perhaps more impressive than the dollar amount, however, is just how successful Paul has been with grassroots supporters: the total number of donations is comprised of 108,205 individual donors with an average of $65.

What’s more, a whopping 85 percent of all donations were for either $50 or less, and 96 percent of all donations were for $100 or less. Those numbers prove that Paul has raw grassroots support nationwide, and hardworking people who aren’t part of the permanent political class—the folks who can’t max out in thousands of dollars of donations to various political candidates—are doing whatever they can to help him out.

The numbers Paul’s campaign released to Breitbart News exclusively also show he is outpacing the contributions of almost every 2012 Republican campaign and has the resources to build a national campaign capable of competing through the convention. The last quarter’s $7 million of receipts come from the time frame of between April and June of this year.

Additionally, Paul’s campaign’s announcement of high levels of small dollar donors means he has strong support from real primary voters, not political insiders. His donors are activists who will continue to donate and, as engaged activists, they will drive others to give to and vote for Sen. Rand Paul 

  And that is not all:

Polls continue to show Paul is the best-suited GOP candidate at this time when it comes to facing off against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election. He leads the field against Hillary Clinton nationally, according to Real Clear Politics’ average of polls. Also, he is the only candidate who polls ahead of Clinton in polls from key states Republicans need to win the White House, including Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Personally I do not think Donald Trump’s popularity will last but Jeb Bush’s establishment connections and the money it will bring in to the campaign may be too much to overcome but I do believe Donald Trump’s popularity and Rand Paul’s grassroots fundraising is proof that the Republican voters are finally growing tired of the Republican political class in Washington. And if this is true then maybe there is a chance at defeating the machine after all…

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