Presidential Campaign Fundraising Update
This is our second post tracking the fundraising efforts for the 2016 presidential elections. A note on the data: we are analyzing credit and debit card individual contributions directly to the two candidates' campaigns. This excludes cash and check contributions and money raised by PACs. In essence, these are the "common folk" small scale contributions. Looking at total dollars spent, we see that after catching up in June, the Donald Trump campaign remained flat in July, while the Hillary Clinton campaign credit and debit card contributions in July by more than 20% compared to June:…
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