specifically the majority leader risk becoming sort of irrelevant if the president decides hey, look, i ve got to get things done and i m going to do it with the democrats. leader mcconnell has demonstrated cycle after cycle that nobody is as capable of raising the kinds of funds he has in the senate and so he s clearly got ryan, that may be cycle after cycle but right now i have got republican donors saying to me i m not going to mcconnell dinners and saying i can t raise money for senate republicans. for everyone who says that, there s about 20 who can t wait to get in. so i think that the people who are being plucked off and identified as angry are not necessarily his network. but they may be other people s network of donors. all right. well, the fund-raising totals will tell the tale. ryan and michael, appreciate it, sir. thank you. thank you. thank you.
resonating with. many ways we put trump and carson in one box, they are so stylistically different, it s hard to say, okay, these are exactly the same people. but you know, one thing i will say is, unlike trump, uncharacteristic candidate, one way carson is conventional spent $2.72 million on direct mail which helps explain a little bit of why his fund-raising totals are so high. and that is, as you know, one of the oldest tricks in the political play book. it is, a very expensive way to raise money. kasie hunt. ben carson s business manager, somebody who has been a political adviser and a familiar face to many that have followed politics over the years, armstrong williams. welcome to mtp daily. nice to see you. thank you for having me, chuck. i want to start with the other news of the day, the letter you and trump campaign or dr. carson and donald trump jointly sent. i want to let folks know that cnbc has responded to your
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him saying he has a tough spine. if he decides to do this, he would make sure his family was on board. the twist here is we re told by some of these donors they re being asked to go to the president to jeb bush s family members and encourage them. one person who is on board, his son george p. bush who s running for statewide office in texas. he says he hopes his dad runs. and he s telling the people they should urge him to do exactly that. it s such a great point, though, when you think about the immediate family of jeb bush and the buy-in that they have to provide, the sacrifice that goes into doing something like that. we ve all seen what can happen to families in the past. you have an update on ted cruz, the fund raising totals for him so far and whether or not they re meeting expectations. if you ve been watching morning joe, you could have predicted this. joe said his role in the
one-on-one meetings with top donors in chicago and a hedge fund ceo at a small dinner event. amid questions over whether the scandal-scarred governor has become a liability to his party as the head of the rga. which last year raised more than $52 million to help elect republican governors. to have christie now traveling around the country in his wounded condition trying to raise money i think is the spectacle. republican candidates are avoiding christie like i would avoid someone who had the swine flu. what appears to be an attempt to quiet it, the rga announced today it set a fund-raising record of $6 million in january under christie. the rga does not normally release its monthly fund-raising totals. meanwhile, there was a small protest today at the george washington bridge. really small protest based on that shot. where a national group organized victims some of the victims of the lane closures to speak