Just 10 mega-donor individuals and couples contributed nearly 20 percent of the $1.1 billion raised by super PACs by the end of August, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal campaign finance reports. The total exceeds the $853 million that super PACs collected in the entire 2012 cycle. That’s largely because of the mixed signals sent by Trump, who denounced super PACs in the primaries. “It has been very frustrating, and unnecessarily so,” said Doug Watts, the national executive director of the pro-Trump Committee for American Sovereignty super PAC. “In past years, I think super PACs were a luxury,” Watts said.

Source: Washington Post October 05, 2016 17:13 UTC