A real thoroughbred, ready for the Belmont!
The Clinton Campaign announced its
fundraising numbers for her first 81 days as a candidate and they are impressive. No unilateral disarmament here, folks:
Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday her campaign has raised more than $45 million during its first quarter.
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The raised amount is a record for primary money raised in a candidate’s first quarter. Previously, President Obama, with $41.9 million raised for the first quarter of his re-election bid, held this record.
Unlike in 2008, so far Clinton’s campaign has decided to only raise money for the primary election to avoid the overspending and fiscal mismanagement that happened during her failed 2008 campaign.
Podesta says 91% of all donations were $100 or less. While they haven't released individual donor numbers yet, with these two facts we can project Clinton's donor number is somewhere north of 400,000. Another impressive number.
What I really love is that this is all primary money. The Clinton Campaign, facing scant competition nationally, will be able to build early infrastructure across the electoral map. A crucial advantage over a Republican field that will take some time to sort out.
We await the Republican numbers, of course. I expect Bush will show strength, but we will have to see how good his numbers really are. The Clinton Campaign admits they have some catching up to do on the SuperPAC front.
One thing is for sure though: we can expect the Clinton Campaign will have the resources to build a first class operation. I'm particularly interested in the final report to see what they are spending on data. And if they being frugal with campaign perks.