“Blasting Trump for “insulting our friends” and “acting like a loose cannon”, Hillary Clinton outlined the leadership qualities she feels necessary to occupy the Oval Office”.
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The former secretary of state’s campaign said she raked in more than $143 million for her campaign and her party last month, topping President Barack Obama’s fund-raising haul over the same period during the 2012 presidential race.
The fundraising haul is a silver lining on what otherwise was a hard month for Clinton, where questions about her exclusive use of a private email server as secretary of state and questions about play-to-play at the Clinton Foundation hamstrung her campaign. It also all but ensures that Clinton will maintain her considerable money advantage over Donald Trump, who began far behind after not mounting a traditional fundraising operation during the Republican primaries.
For comparison, in July the Clinton campaign raised almost $90 million, and the Trump campaign raised $80 million.
Clinton’s events – which took her to 12 states – raised $67.9 million, according to CNN’s calculations.
Clinton spent much of August holding high-profile fundraisers in New York, California and MA.
Mook said that Donald Trump has propelled voters toward Clinton with his recent “inflammatory rhetoric”.
Of the total, around $62 million went to the Clinton campaign, and roughly $81 million was raised for the Democratic Party and state parties across the country through joint fundraising accounts, the Clinton campaign said in a news release on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. “These resources will help us to register and turnout millions of voters to elect progressive candidates across the country”.
With two months remaining before American voters cast their votes, the Clinton campaign is starting the month of September with a hefty sum of funds to dole out.
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More than half the available cash sits in the bank accounts of Democratic groups, not Clinton’s campaign, and some of those contribution have been earmarked for functions not directly related to the fall campaign.
