VIDEO: Mega Rich GOP Donors Afraid of Rand Paul
CHUCK TODD, MEET THE PRESS: The establishment, AKA, donors, they want one of those three [Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie]. The grassroots: they’re not interested in any of those three. They’re very unpopular with the people who actually vote in Republican primaries, the people that vote in Iowa and New Hampshire and North Carolina. There’s a real disconnect between the mega-rich guys who are backing the Republican Party — they want a Jeb [Bush], they want a [Mitt Romney] again. They’ll even accept a [Chris] Christie, though I think he is a sort of lower third.
They’re afraid of what the grassroots might select, whether it is a Rand Paul, a Ted Cruz, whatever…
Right now, I think it is all over the place. Believe it or not, after Rand Paul — right now Rand Paul, we don’t have a front-runner, but in NASCAR terms, he’s in the pole position, he’s earned that right, he’s sort of the leader. He leads the polls in Iowa, he leads in most polls…