Forecast: April Shower Of Prez Candidates

Posted by | March 15, 2015 10:30 | Filed under: Politics Top Stories

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Accuweather, schmack-you-weather! The Hill has the forecast all you political junkies are jonesing for:

Get ready for April to bring a shower of presidential campaign announcements.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) is moving hard towards a launch early next month, according to sources close to her team.

Republican Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Ky.) are also likely to hit the launch button in the coming weeks, according to sources familiar with their plans, pushing the 2016 race into high gear in what could be a crucial month of the campaign season.

And there’s a reason for the April sharknado:

The rush to launch is being driven mostly by finances.

April 1 marks the beginning of a new fundraising quarter, giving candidates plenty of time to build their campaign war chests before they have to report the figures publicly in July.

“It makes sense to start as early as possible to have a strong quarter. The financial challenge is so immense that you need all the time you can get,” said Texas-based GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak.

“It seems like it’s early, but as you start planning your calendar out for the rest of the year, you realize we’re a ways down the road here and you’ve got to do the things you have to do now,” he added.

Several candidates appear ready to take advantage an early announcement, giving them the full second quarter to pad their campaign coffers.

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3 responses to Forecast: April Shower Of Prez Candidates

  1. Dwendt44 March 15th, 2015 at 13:32

    Some of these candidates can not possible think they have a chance at the big chair. Cruz for sure, even some die hard conservatives brand him as a ‘foreigner’.(the same crowd that claimed Obama wasn’t a ‘real’ American’) I wonder if there’s money to be made just being a candidate. Newt made a bundle with his ‘pre-exploratory’ committee, as any funds in such a venture can go directly into his pocket.

  2. Obewon March 15th, 2015 at 14:26

    Clownservatives will need a whole fleet of clown cars to shuttle their candidates between indictments, mental health facilities, and back to Koch’s for refueling their holy grail of coal ash cash.

    Indicted felon Perry / Christie’16~ the pathological liar party may run from prison with trusted inmates Michael Grimm, Dinesh D’Souza & Ex-Va. guber Bob and Ms. McDonnell sentenced to years in prison for corruption! McDonnell / D’Souza in 2020~

  3. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker March 15th, 2015 at 17:01

    We need to prepare ourselves for more ‘made-up’ conservative conspiracy theories.
    It’ll be a great season for comedians indeed.

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