Wyoming businessman Foster Friess has few regrets over the outcome of the November presidential election.
“The American people gave the Republican Party a mandate in this last election,” Friess, the GOP multi-millionaire who backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in the 2012 race, told ABC News on Friday.
He highlighted the Republican wins in various state legislative races.
“Right now, the Republicans have their tail between their legs,” Friess told ABC. “I'm saying there’s no reason to have their tail between their legs.”
Friess spent more than $2.5 million in the race, with most of it going to the super PAC that backed Santorum, the Red White and Blue Fund, ABC reports. He talked with reporters after a breakfast event at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington.
“I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed,” Friess, 72, a Wisconsin native, told ABC. He said he had received support from Santorum backers who could not afford to make large contributions. “Notes from people making 40, 50 thousand saying, ‘I never could have supported his candidacy.’”
Friess said he would support Santorum again if he ran in 2016.
He also donated $100,000 to the super PAC that supported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, ABC reports.
Friess has a new charity initiative — “Left Right Left Right Forward March!" — that focus on such issues as making adoption easier and lessening infant-mortality rates.
While pointing out that Republicans had taken single-party control of three state legislatures, Friess mentioned one thing that the GOP could have done better in the election: “I would basically have had more [manpower] on the ground.”
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