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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Carucha L. Meuse, The Journal News-USA TODAY Sport)
Two wealthy Arkansas brothers are plowing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>millions into the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>groups<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fighting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to keep billionaire Donald Trump out of the White House.
Warren Stephens, an investment banker from Little Rock, Ark., and his brother, Jackson Stephens, each donated $1 million last month to Club for Growth Action, an anti-tax group that has spent more than $6.3 million trying to persuade Republican voters to dump Trump. Warren Stephens gave another $1 million in March<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to Our Principles PAC, which has unleashed nearly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>$14.9<span style="color: Red;">*</span>million in advertising and voter outreach<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to beat back the GOP front-runner.
Counting their donations since the start of the year, the Stephens brothers have contributed $6.5 million to the two anti-Trump groups, surpassing donations from<span style="color: Red;">*</span>members of the Ricketts family, who own the Chicago Cubs and provided the early seed money to Our Principles PAC.
The heavy spending on anti-Trump ads has not stopped the brash billionaire from racking up primary wins, but some of the anti-Trump groups are shifting their efforts to the behind-the-scenes fight for convention delegates. They hope to deny Trump the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the Republican National Convention in July.
Our Principles PAC raised $8.4 million in March, its best monthly haul since it began operating in January, but it burned through its money quickly and started April with $424,000 remaining in cash reserves.
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Other anti-Trump donors in March included asset manager Cliff Asness, who donated $1 million to Our Principles PAC, along with Marlene Ricketts and hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer, who each donated $500,000<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to the group.
A super PAC supporting Trump's closest<span style="color: Red;">*</span>rival,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, contributed $200,000 to Our Principles PAC. Randy Kendrick, whose family owns the Arizona Diamondbacks, and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Hewlett<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, an outspoken Trump critic, each donated $100,000.
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