Hillary Clinton, announcing totals six days ago:
Hillary Clinton raised $143 million in August, a total that includes her own campaign's collections as well as money for joint fundraising committees with the national and state parties.
Her campaign hailed the monthly fundraising haul Thursday as its best of the campaign cycle. The Democratic nominee has more than $68 million on hand, and its average donation last month was about $50.
Donald Trump, waiting until today to give incomplete numbers:
Donald Trump and his joint committees raised $90 million in August, a substantial haul for a candidate late to fundraising but one that still significantly trails Hillary Clinton's enormous summer totals.
A $53 million difference is yuuuge. Tremendous. The biggest! And, if Trump is to be believed, which he is not, he had to pad his own numbers:
Trump said at a rally on Tuesday that he himself contributed a lot of the money to his campaign in August.
And while the Clinton campaign was happy to report their cash-on-hand numbers, Trump’s campaign refused to do so. So to recap: If you are happy about your numbers, you report them as quickly as possible and shout them out to the world; if you aren’t, you hold out as long as you can, then deliver incomplete info. In this case, it’s easy to see which campaign is happy, and which one wishes it could curl up and die.