Clinton’s campaign reported raising more than $46 million for the primary, according to its first campaign finance report filed with the on Wednesday.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on their campaigns. The trend, dominated by Republicans, underscores how much recent changes to federal election rules, in addition to court rulings allowing unlimited corporation contributions in elections, have rewritten the playbook of American campaigns.
The report was made public on Wednesday.
Here’s how much each candidate can say their “supporters” raised – both between the campaigns and the outside groups.
About 94% of their donations were $250 or less, with an average donation of $144.89, according to the Clinton campaign. Sixty-one percent of the donors, the campaign said, came from women. His wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, is a managing director at Goldman Sachs, though she has taken unpaid leave from the bank for the duration of her husband’s campaign.
Finally, there’s nearly $400,000 in “legal services” to two law firms.
On Friday, the Clinton campaign also said it had purchased $7.7 million worth of television airtime in early primary states, making its first ad buy of the 2016 election. Bush’s presidential campaign, which officially began on June 15, collected $11.5 million from contributors.
The Campaign Finance Institute said the presidential candidates have raised more than $130 million, with $65 million going to Republicans and $65.2 million to Democrats.
Kenneth Abramowitz, a New York investor who has given $1,500 or more to four different GOP candidates, said his donations are all tied to events.
Bush has also publicly praised Uber – and he practices what he preaches: His campaign listed about 70 expenditures for the ride-sharing service. Some, such as Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner and investor Susie Tompkins Buell, have also personally hosted fundraisers for Clinton’s campaign. The FEC only requires names and identifying information for people who give more than $200.
The maximum contribution for the primary is $2,700.
Clinton amassed an additional $114,775 from inhouse Microsoft, Starbucks and Exxon Mobil lobbyists who collected bundles of donations from associates. Conservative candidate Ted Cruz spent 54 per cent of the $10-million he received from donors in the quarter, according to filings.
The campaign would not disclose how much its list has grown since April.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment.
Clinton’s 40 percent burn rate is far higher than her first quarter as a candidate in 2007. Of the $19 million she spent, her top three expenses were payroll, marketing and taxes. And, though he acknowledged small donations may be less important financially in the super PAC era, he cautioned the candidates against writing off small donors.
The Texas senator has also celebrated an analytics firm that has embedded several data gurus at its Houston headquarters.
“He’s a very interesting actor in the relationship, with his role at the Department of State and then raising money from foreign leaders and countries at the foundation”, said FACT president Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. Attorney, in February.
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Candidate shopping, if money is any guide, sometimes means party-hopping. About 17 percent of her contributions were $200 or less. But he raised just $600,000 – good enough to best only Jindal and Trump. His report only spanned the last two weeks in June. The candidates getting the highest proportion of their funds from small donors so far in this election are Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson, and Rand Paul. Candidates can claim what they’d like on the reports, and there’s no sign that this haul is actually true. In the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, he said he raised billions – not millions – of dollars for his campaign.
