Lincoln Chafee didn't even raise enough money to buy Consumer Reports' worst-rated car of the year

Democratic presidential candidate and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee raised a lot less money than his party's frontrunner Hillary Clinton did in the third quarter — a whole lot less.

While Clinton amassed a whopping $33 million by the end of September, Chafee only raised $15,457 — not even enough money to buy Consumer Reports' worst-rated car of 2015, a Chrysler 200. According to Politico's report, Chafee's fundraising total puts him in dead last out of the entire presidential field, GOP included.

These dismal fundraising numbers, revealed Friday in the latest Federal Election Commission filings, are yet another piece of bad news this week for Chafee's chances in the primary. In the first Democratic debate Tuesday, Chafee delivered a widely panned performance, which prompted Wolf Blitzer to warn him that he is going "to wind up looking silly if [he] keep[s] going on like this."

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