Hillary Clinton’s money problems might extend beyond her foundation’s acceptance of foreign donations.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday, the super PAC Priorities USA Action supporting Clinton in her presidential bid is experiencing some fundraising trouble.
Sources allege that the political action committee anticipates that it will collect only $15 million by June’s end. Though seemingly substantial, this number is dwarfed by those being thrown around by super PACs supporting Republican candidates for president.
A group of PACs supporting GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, for example, claimed to have reached the $31-million mark way back in April just weeks after Cruz officially announced his bid for president.
Furthermore, Jeb Bush — who still has yet to make official his run for the White House — has claimed to have broken all other Republican fundraising records, though the numbers are unclear. His team denied reports in January that they had set a goal of raising $100 million in the first three months of the year.
Having only secured $5 million in “hard commitments,” according to sources, Priorities USA will endure a shake up in terms of its senior-level staff. This will allegedly entail executive director Buffy Wicks leaving for a role in the Clinton campaign, making way for Guy Cecil — a former aide from Clinton’s 2008 campaign — to take over the day-to-day goings on at the PAC.
A source close to the PAC cited “dissatisfaction with the fundraising” and “unhappiness with the lack of leadership in the organization,” while another contended, “Everybody felt like the fundraising needed to be stepped up significantly.”
Clinton, who is expected by her critics and opponents alike to be a spending force in the presidential election, is undoubtedly at the least troubled by the slow fundraising.
