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The Wisconsin governor this week announced a nonprofit group, Our American Revival, that will allow him to promote his policy ideas and raise unlimited donations. Because of the way Walker structured the organization, it allows him to hire staff and consultants, but he cannot give campaign donations to lawmakers in early voting states such as Iowa or New Hampshire. The New Jersey governor is working to turn his fundraising success as chairman of the Republican Governors Association into cash for a possible presidential campaign. The Kentucky senator has his Senate leadership committee, RANDPAC, up and running — with staff in the crucial presidential states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The tea party firebrand has used his federal leadership PAC, the Jobs, Growth and Freedom Fund, to advance his national political brand. The senior senator from South Carolina this week announced he had formed Security Through Strength, a campaign-like committee that will allow him to gauge interest in a potential White House bid. The former Texas governor started a federal political committee last year to help him support candidates and allies, ranging from a New Hampshire sheriff hopeful to the South Carolina Republican Party. After dropping out of the 2012 presidential race, the former senator from Pennsylvania formed the nonprofit Patriot Voices to help him keep in touch with supporters, as well as a sister PAC with the same name. Jindal recently has been courting pastors and trying to build his national security credentials with fiery speeches against radical Islam. While she has helped GOP committees raise cash and chairs the American Conservative Union Foundation, her most recent filing to the Federal Election Commission shows she still owes close to $500,000 from her 2010 failed Senate bid in California. The 2008 vice presidential nominee and former Alaska governor recently fanned speculation that she might seek the GOP nomination in 2016. Two of the biggest hawks in the GOP have formed political operations to ensure the party considers national security a priority.

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