3 Campaigns With More Money Than Trump's: Sanders, Cruz And Even Carson
Donald Trump's latest fundraising figures are eye-popping.
No, not because they're great. Rather, they're abysmal. The fundraising gap between Trump and Hillary Clinton is the biggest disparity to kick off a campaign in recent history, as the New York Times reported.
All told, Trump received $3.1 million in individual contributions last month, compared with Clinton's $19.5 million. And in this election cycle, Clinton has raised $207 million in contributions. Trump has raised $17.1 million. Counting contributions and loans from committees and the candidates themselves (like the $45.7 million Trump has loaned to his campaign), it's still lopsided: $238 million to about $65 million.
More important, though, is what each campaign has left to spend. On that count, Trump's numbers look even worse. As of the end of May, he had $1.3 million in the bank. That means he had less at the end of May than Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and Ben Carson, and only a little more than Carly Fiorina.
A reminder: Those people are not nominees for the presidency. A couple of them dropped out months ago.
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