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| Thank you, money. |
Meet
Ted Cruz's sugar daddy.
[Robert Mercer], a reclusive Long Islander who started at
I.B.M. and made his fortune using computer patterns to outsmart the
stock market, emerged this week as a key early bankroller of Mr. Cruz’s
surprisingly fast campaign start. He is believed to be the main donor
behind a network of four “super PACs” supporting Mr. Cruz that reported
raising $31 million just a few weeks into his campaign. [...]
Mr. Mercer does not have the name recognition of fellow Republican
financiers like the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson, but he has spent
more than $15 million since 2012 in support of conservative political
campaigns and causes, donating to a number of candidates who had never
even met him.
You cannot run for president without a sugar daddy. Unless, like Mitt
Romney, you are your own sugar daddy. Newt had his Adelson, and the Koch
brothers have raised many a candidate from larva to legislator, and Ted
Cruz can run for president only because a hedge fund manager somewhere
in America has given him his blessing.
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