Why Donald Trump’s fundraising efforts fell short in Texas
Houston billionaire Hushang Ansary and his wife, Shahla, last year each wrote $1 million checks to Right to Rise, the super PAC that raised more than $100 million to promote Jeb Bush for president. Over the course of the 2016 election cycle, the Ansarys wrote 113 more checks, totaling more than $2 million, to a vast array of Republican committees and candidates, right down to Texan U.S. Reps. Will Hurd of Helotes and Roger Williams of Austin, in hopes of keeping the House and Senate in GOP hands.
But one notable candidate missed the Ansarys’ largess — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In and of itself, that isn’t surprising. Trump mocked and humiliated the man the Ansarys hoped would be the third Republican president from the Bush family.
But the Ansarys closing their checkbook to Trump goes a long way toward explaining why the GOP nominee left so much money on the table in Texas, a state in which big Republican money is still closely entwined with the Bush family.
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