Campaign Aide: Clinton Lent Herself $6.4 Million in Past Month
WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lent her presidential campaign $6.4 million over the past month, her campaign said Wednesday, underscoring the financial advantage held by her rival, Barack Obama.
The money more than doubled Clinton’s personal investment in her bid for the Democratic nomination. She gave her campaign $5 million earlier this year.
A campaign aide said Clinton gave her campaign another $5 million on April 11, more than a week before the Pennsylvania primary. She then again dipped into her personal wealth for $1 million last week and $425,000 on Monday, one day before the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.
Clinton’s campaign reported raising $10 million online after her Pennsylvania victory on April 22. Evidently, the money was not enough and her fundraising was unable to keep up with her expenses heading into Tuesday’s contests.
Moreover, Obama has routinely outspent her in primary after primary and has shown little difficulty tapping his vast network of donors. He spent more than $7 million on advertising head of Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana to her nearly $4 million.
According to the latest campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Obama began the month of April with $42 million in the bank for the primary to Clinton’s $9.3 million.
But Clinton had debts of $10.3 million at the start of the month, much of it money owed to her main polling, phone banking and advertising consultants.
Surely last nights primary results indicate that Hillary has no chance of winning the nomination- they party should unite behind Obama. Although this is increasingly unlikely given the intense animosity between the two camps. Increasingly it appears as if McCain will be victorious in November.
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Yeah, and this is the party that said money should not be part of campaigns. Typical liberal hypocrisy!!!
Ernest-Thank you. I haven’t laughed this hard in years. Please…get your head out of the sand. The Clinton’s have always been, and will always be for themselves at any cost. They do not put the American people above themselves. They are opportunists who will do whatever they can to pass their liberal agenda. Read any book about Hillary and/or her husband to see that they are liars, cheaters and thieves. I’m not saying any of the other candidates are perfect, but the last thing we need is Billary back in the White House. WAKE UP!
Hillary has always been her own biggest supporter. At the end of the day the people have judged her ideas tired, her moral compass spinning and her vision to be blurred and self-serving.
Save your millions Hillary!
She needs to drop out of the race for the good of the party!
I love you Hillary, but I think it’s time we come together and support Obama. We can’t have another Bush in the White House.
I am a Obama supporter but the Clinton are part of democratic party. There is nothing wrong putting your money on something you truely believed. So blaming me her for spending her money is just plian whole no news.
Follow the money… if Hillary gets elected you’ll see who will be running the country.
When will the Democratic Party stop eating its own tail? Senator Clinton won Indiana by the wart on her nose. It’s Senator Obama that has the broom now. This is all so entertaining…
Dear Hillery, This is a sign that you need to concede and rally behind the presumptive nominee, Senator Barack Obama. Continuing on with the other races make you look really selfish and desperate. I applaud you because you fought a hard race (sometimes to negative to your fellow democrat). Please use this time to help unify the party so that we can beat John McCain in the fall.
Obama ‘08