December 2, 2016 11:57 AM
The Money
The following information is based on data collected by The Center for Responsive Politics from the Federal Election Commission reports. The data from the candidate committees is as released on October 28, 2016. The data for the political parties is as released on November 2nd. Therefore, the totals will increase.The amount raised so far by presidential candidates is $1.3 billion. The amount raised so far by Super PACs supporting them is $594 million.
According to official reports from the Clinton and Trump campaign committees and the Super PACs that supported them, the money available to support the Clinton candidacy was twice the amount that was available to support the Trump candidacy, $687,261,894 to $306,930,980.
Candidate Committee | Outside Money | |
Donald Trump | $247,541,449 | $59,389,531 |
Hillary Clinton | 497,808,791 | 189,453,103 |
Gary Johnson | 11,410,313 | 1,383,852 |
Evan McMullin | 1,025,703 | 0 |
Jill Stein | 3,509,477 | 0 |
Selected other candidates who raised more than $10,000,000 in campaign funds:
Candidate Committee | Outside Money | |
Bernie Sanders | $228,171,330 | $922,901 |
Ted Cruz | 89,528,776 | 53,479,471 |
Marco Rubio | 52,331,502 | 110,168,551 |
Jed Bush | 34,088,583 | 121,733,869 |
Ben Carson | 63,336,171 | 18,700,449 |
John Kasich | 18,897,737 | 15,597,064 |
Rand Paul | 12,149,234 | 11,600,497 |
Carly Fiorina | 11,974,161 | 14,627,477 |
Amounts raised by various party committees:
Democratic National Committee | $264,178,780 |
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte. | 176,207,066 |
Democratic Senate Campaign Committee | 147,229,342 |
Republican National Committee | $290,634,275 |
Republican Congressional Campaign Cmte. | 146,318,771 |
Republican Senate Campaign Committee | 122,867,512 |