On Wednesday, Donald Trump's campaign announced that it raised $82 million in July along with the Republican National Committee, thanks largely to a windfall of small donations. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee raised $90 million in the same month, including $63 million for Clinton's campaign. The hefty haul for Trump follows an anemic June, when Trump and the RNC raised $52.3 million, mostly from a handful of mega-donors, and May, when Trump reported only $1.3 million in the bank.
The numbers in both Clinton's and Trump's reports are preliminary, and more information will be available when they file their Federal Election Commission reports by Aug. 20. The Trump-RNC haul includes $64 million raised online and through direct mailings — an effort the RNC has been working to ramp up since 2012 — plus $16 million from 20 big-dollar fundraisers, and $2 million from Trump himself. Trump's campaign began August with $37 million; Clinton started the month with $58 million.
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