George W. Bush Donors Embrace Jeb Bush Candidacy

Republican Jeb Bush rounded up donations in the first 15 days of his presidential campaign from at least 136 top-tier donors to his brother, former President George W. Bush, signaling that the family’s vaunted fundraising network is quickly mobilizing to push a third Bush presidency.

Those donors—dubbed Pioneers and Rangers for raising around $100,000 or at least $200,000 in the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns—gave Jeb Bush at least $350,000 of the $11.4 million he collected through June 30, ac