A newly minted super PAC supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is out with a list of its most prominent donors, including conservative actress Stacey Dash and oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens.
“The nomination process is over and regardless of other candidates one may have supported in the primary, it’s critical for the leaders in the country who believe in free markets to step up and rally behind Donald Trump…” Stanley Hubbard, co-chair of the Great America PAC, said told ABC News in a statement.
“With our expanding list of supporters, we will have the financial resources to help Donald Trump win a billion-dollar campaign,” Hubbard said.
Great America PAC, which Hubbard helped start in February, has attempted to position itself in recent weeks as the leading outside support group for Trump’s general election campaign.
The PAC recently hired veteran GOP operative Ed Rollins, who managed Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign in 1984, and has sought to recruit big names in Republican circles to help lend credibility to itself. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the PAC on Wednesday for a private conference call with prospective donors.
Now, Hubbard and his allies are further proving their seriousness by releasing a list of wealthy supporters they claim have already contributed to the group.
In addition to Dash and Pickens, the list includes Clean Energy Fuels’ CEO Andrew Littlefair; August Petrone, the wife of former United Nations Ambassador Joseph Petrone; Russian-born philanthropist Yuri Vanetik; and former Jeb Bush finance committee member Dale Dykema.
The group has reportedly raised more than $2 million since its inception and intends to add an additional $500,000 to that sum by the end of the month.
“The PAC with Hillary has bought $200 million of advertising time,” a senior strategist involved in Great America PAC said on the group’s conference call Wednesday. “We’re playing catch up. It’s going to take a little effort to match their resources, but we’re doing everything we can to move forward.”
Meanwhile, despite recently reaching a joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee, Trump has not said whether he will welcome the support of outside groups in the general election.
“Mr. Trump is personally funding his own campaign in connection with the primaries with his vast personal fortune,” Trump’s campaign lawyer, Don McGahn, wrote in a letter to Great America PAC in April.
