Trump won with half as much money as Clinton raised
Overcoming the biggest gap in modern campaign finance was just another convention Trump defied.
By Isaac Arnsdorf
12/08/16 11:53 PM EST
Hillary Clinton outraised Donald Trump two-to-one. It didn't matter.
So ends the most lopsided contest in modern campaign finance. And yet the deficit proved just one of the many odds Trump beat, another political convention he busted.
Clinton and her allies, including her joint committees with the Democratic Party and the super PACs supporting her, raised more than $1.2 billion for the full cycle, according to the last reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. Trump and his allies collected about $600 million.
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