{"id":137498,"date":"2016-03-21T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=137498"},"modified":"2016-03-21T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:03:07","slug":"latest-numbers-to-know-about-the-2016-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/03\/latest-numbers-to-know-about-the-2016-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest numbers to know about the 2016 presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presidential candidates and their supportive super PACs generally entered March one of two ways: flush with energy and cash or destined for Election 2016 footnote status.<\/p>\n

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Gage Skidmore \/ Creative Commons<\/p>

A gaggle of billionaires, corporations and other wealthy types invested in Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid just as it was poised to fall apart. (photo cc info<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

A new round of federal campaign finance disclosures due Sunday night detailed presidential hopefuls’ boom-or-bust February \u2014 sometimes in all-too-ugly detail for the several candidates who ended their campaigns last month.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a rundown of the more telling \u2014 and curious \u2014 statistics to emerge:<\/p>\n

$25 million: <\/strong>What a gaggle of billionaires, corporations and other wealthy types invested in Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio<\/a>‘s presidential bid just as it was poised to fall apart. Conservative Solutions PAC, a super PAC supporting Rubio, had its best fundraising month in February, raised the gaudy sum in February alone. The bulk of the money \u2014 $22 million \u2014 came in just 11 seven-figure contributions from big names in GOP donor circles, including billionaire investors Paul Singer and Ken Griffin (each $2.5 million) and Oracle Corporation’s Larry Ellison ($2 million). Most likely to feel like a turkey? Arkansas poultry magnate Ronald Cameron, who contributed $5 million to the ill-fated effort. Conservative Solutions PAC also reported $2.5 million contributions each from two companies associated with Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg \u2014 Starr International USA and C.V. Starr & Company Inc. Greenberg is on quite a losing streak, having previously contributed<\/a> $10 million to Right to Rise USA, the super PAC backing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush<\/a>‘s failed presidential campaign. Rubio withdrew from the presidential race in mid-March after he lost his home state primary in Florida.<\/p>\n