Ted Cruz has $13.5m in the bank thanks to wife Heidi and her fundraising

Home Top

Inside Lamar's Vegas $75k brothel binge: Security footage 'shows NBA star popping pills' - as Kardashians arrive home in LA and Caitlyn Jenner joins heartbroken Khloe at his hospital bedside
'Officer, what are you doing?': US cop shoots dead unarmed 17-year-old boy driving back from church basketball game after teen flashed his lights to signal fault with patrol car
Bondage Bob in bid to overturn murder conviction: Detroit dungeon master claims he had no need to kill his wife as she was fine with him sleeping with other women
Fox News guest terrorism analyst is arrested on fraud charges after falsely claiming to have been a CIA agent for nearly three decades
Are YOU smart enough to join Mensa? Take the quiz to see if your IQ measures up against 250 child geniuses
Not lovin' it: McDonald's franchisees say all-day breakfast is a disaster as new menu slows down service
Husband writes poignant email to complain that photographer had airbrushed wife's wrinkles and stretch marks as, 'it took away everything that makes up our life'
Mother's outrage as her twin sons are left in tears when pornographic audio is blasted over the loudspeakers at TARGET
The $250billion hangover: Binge drinkers are draining the U.S. economy due to health issues, car crashes, deaths and reduced productivity at work, study reveals
Is this the biggest blister you've ever seen? Hideous video shows swelling that covers man's entire PALM being popped
Australian model with huge shoulders and a tiny waist trains FOUR hours a day and barely eats for 'fitness competition' - so have bodybuilding contests gone too far?
Salt Lake City Capitol building evacuated after man abandons unloaded rifle inside a cardboard box with a wreath in 'bizarre' stunt
The gadget that scans for CALORIES: $249 Scio uses beams of light to analyse the amount of fat, carbs and proteins in a food
Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip release stunning black and white photos to mark their pregnancy announcement
Turkish warplanes shoot down 'unidentified aircraft' within their airspace near Syrian border - weeks after Russian jets were intercepted entering it
The REAL power struggle in Syria: How Assad and ISIS work together to provide energy to the country... with terrified staff forced to work in Islamist-held electricity plants
Twin sisters sell the Australian home they have shared for the last 85 YEARS ... and it's an untouched snapshot of another era
Frozen world of Enceladus revealed: Cassini captures the fractured and pockmarked surface of Saturn's moon in unprecedented detail
The sun's sprung a leak! Enormous coronal hole that is 50-EARTHS-wide spotted on star (but don't worry, it's harmless)
Did notorious cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer kidnap and decapitate John Walsh's son? Book claims serial killer was behind grisly murder of the six-year-old boy that inspired 'America's Most Wanted'
'Grief is the most painful experience that any child can endure': Prince William gives moving speech about the death of his mother Diana
Charlotte's ladylike... but George is lively, says Prince William as he opens up about his children
'I think he had a death wish': Father of Lamar Odom's best friend who was killed by drugs says he believes NBA star is 'done'
Kardashian family post joint statement suspending their subscription apps 'while we support and pray for Lamar'

Cruz is on track to emerge as the Republican presidential contender with the most cash to spend, aside from self-funding billionaire Donald Trump
A critical member of his fundraising operation is wife Heidi, on leave from her job at Goldman Sachs, who makes 20-25 calls a day for him
Cruz has more gas in the tank that Jeb Bush raised $13.3 million in the last quarter but has $10.2 million left to spend
Scott Walker, the GOP governor who unexpectedly dropped out 10 weeks in, raised $7.4 million - but he spent more than that and is $1 million in debt

By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com

Published: 17:07 EST, 15 October 2015 | Updated: 22:49 EST, 15 October 2015

View
comments

Ted Cruz is on track to emerge as the Republican presidential contender with the most cash to spend, aside from self-funding billionaire Donald Trump, when campaigns' latest finance forms post online tonight.

Cruz will report that he has $13.5 million in the bank, according to the Washington Post, after raising $12.2 million in the last fundraising quarter.

A critical member of his fundraising operation, the article says, is wife Heidi, who made more than 600 fundraising calls for him since July.

Scroll down for video

Ted Cruz is on track to emerge as the Republican presidential contender with the most cash to spend, aside from self-funding billionaire Donald Trump. A critical member of his fundraising operation is wife Heidi, left, who's made more than 600 fundraising calls for him since July

Cruz has already demonstrated a staying power in the race. He raised a total of $26.5 million dollars as of the end of September for his candidacy. Not all candidates have reported their financial yet for this most recent quarter, but Cruz is second among those who have

Heidi Cruz took a leave of absence from her job as at Goldman Sachs earlier this year to assist her husband's campaign.

Mrs. Cruz told the Washington Post that she makes 20-35 calls a day to high dollar donors on behalf of her husband, asking them to give the maximum, legally allowable amount - $2,700 - to his campaign.

'The calls that I’m making are to max out donors. Max out and super PAC,' she told the Post.

The Cruz campaign has raised $26.5 million in since the race began.

That's not as much as Ben Carson, who reported a massive third quarter fundraising haul of $20.2 million, bringing him to $30.8 million total. But Cruz has more money left over than his Republican counterpart.

Carson has $11.5 million cash on hand, the Washington Times reported on Monday.

Cruz also has more gas in the tank that Jeb Bush, whose campaign announced this afternoon announced it raised $13.3 million in the last quarter and $24.8 million over the course of the campaign.

The former Florida governor has $10.2 million to spend, it said.

Bush's Super PAC, Right to Rise, is doing most of the heavy lifting to get him elected, and Politico reports that it will have to do even more moving forward.

The official campaign budget is getting a trim, the Politico expose making the rounds today said. Luxuries that Bush, currently in fifth place, will have to learn to live without include the private jets that ferry him from campaign event to campaign event.

He'll fly commercial more often now, it said, and cut back on other 'extravagances.'

'The high life has ended,' said a Florida strategist with knowledge of the campaign's strategy said.

Cruz, pictured here on Tuesday in Iowa, has more gas in the tank that Jeb Bush, whose campaign announced this afternoon announced it raised $13.3 million in the last quarter and $24.8 million over the course of the campaign

Reporting early this month were U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.

Rubio brought in just $6 million from July to September - but he's burning money at a slower rate than most of his competitors and has $11 million in his campaign account.

Paul took in $2.5 million for his presidential campaign and he has $2 million of it left. He's also running for re-election to the Senate and has a separate fund for that.

Lagging in the money race and the polls nationally - he's hovering at 2.7 percent - and fighting battles on two political fronts, the vultures are circling Paul's presidential campaign.

Cruz is pitching himself as an alternative to the libertarian and a safe landing spot for Paul's voters if he decides to get out.

Paul swears he's in it to win it, though, and will be around just as long as the Republican front-runner, Trump.

Trump landed in the back of the pack in the money race with $3.9 million raised and $250,000 left on hand.

He's is funding his own campaign and taking very few checks from regular Republican donors, however.In a statement this evening Trump said he'd spent a little over $1.9 million out of pocket on his campaign.

Fiorina had a decent quarter, raising $6.8 million - $5.5 of which she still has at her disposal.

She performed well at her first prime-time debate in September and she now ranks fourth in the Republican race, Real Clear Politics' polling average shows.

Bush's official campaign budget is getting a trim. Luxuries that Bush, currently in fifth place, will have to learn to live without include the private jets that ferry him from campaign event to campaign event, a report today said. Bush is seen here in New Hampshire yesterday

Waiting until the last minute to disclose campaign cash typically means bad news.

Such is the case of Scott Walker, the GOP governor who unexpectedly dropped out 10 weeks in amid rumors his bloated campaign was bleeding money.

His Federal Election Commission report will show that he raised a hearty $7.4 million during his short time in the race. The Wall Street Journal says he spent more than what he brought in, though, and was a million in the red when he called it quits.

Candidates have until 11:59 pm to file with the FEC. Once they do, it will be made immediately available online.

Their Super PACs are on a different reporting schedule and do not have to fill out new forms until January 31. The last time they had to to report their fundraising to the government was in June.

They are required to say how much they are spending on ad buys each week, though, giving a glimpse into how much money is going out, and, in some cases, how much is coming in.

Bush's Super PAC raised more than $100 million, giving the candidate a $120 million all-around war chest as of August 1.

Cruz came in second once his Super PAC money was factored in.

Weak on PAC money, Carson dropped to ninth in the money race when all was said and done, while Rubio jumped up to third.

In terms of polling, the candidates stand as such: Trump, 23 percent, Carson, 19 percent, Rubio, 9.9, Fiorina, 8.3, Bush by a nose, at 7.3 percent, then Cruz at 7 percent, bringing up the rear of the top tier. All other candidates come nowhere close and have less than three percent support.