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http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/15/politics/donald-trump-fundraising-september/index.htmlBy Theodore Schleifer
Donald Trump cut his routine $2 million monthly check to his campaign last September after repeatedly suggesting that he would increase his donations during the campaign's stretch run.
Trump's campaign, along with Republican joint fundraising committees, said it raised $100 million last month, more than it has in any previous month though well short of the $154 million Hillary Clinton's operation took in.
But Trump -- who largely closed a polling gap with Clinton during much of September -- did not give more to his campaign than he had in previous months despite being pressured to invest more of his fortune.
His campaign did not specify how much of the money was raised by his campaign versus the committees, which must split proceeds with the Republican National Committee and more than 20 state parties.
Meanwhile, a new fundraising report filed Saturday night found few Republican heavyweight donors cut major checks to Trump's campaign during the summer months.
Trump Victory, his high-dollar fundraising group, raised $61.3 million for Trump's campaign and the Republican Party between July and September. And very few of the GOP's most prominent financial backeres can be found listed on the report, a concrete sign of just how much the GOP's donor class has spurned him.
Some Republican billionaires did pony up: The most generous GOP donor in the country, Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, donated $10 million to a pro-Trump super PAC, Future45, in September, $5 million more than had been expected. The group — expected to be one of the leading Trump advertisers in television during the homestretch — raised a total of $12.3 million, thanks to smaller donations from GOP megadonors Joe Ricketts and Joe Craft.
A second Trump super PAC, Rebuilding America Now, posted disappointing totals, but revealed a few more GOP donors willing to cut checks. The group — which has repeatedly claimed massive amount in pledges from donors — raised only $18 million between July and September. Almost two-thirds of that money came from two well-known Trump financiers: Bernie Marcus, the founder of Home Depot, who gave the super PAC $5 million, and Linda McMahon, the former Senate candidate in Connecticut, who gave the group $6 million.
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