washington <u+2013>- hillary clinton<u+2019>s presidential campaign on wednesday announced a massive fundraising haul in the quarter that ended on june 30, further cementing her status as the clear front-runner in the 2016 race.









all told, the democratic candidate and former secretary of state raised more than $45 million in primary campaign contributions between her campaign announcement in april and the end of june. that figure, according to a clinton aide, is the most that any candidate has ever raised in their opening quarter, topping president barack obama's roughly $42 million in the first quarter of 2011.









clinton's haul would also shatter the previous record for an opening fundraising total by a non-incumbent presidential candidate, which she herself set in the first quarter of 2007. to set that record, she raised $26 million in the first three months of her first presidential campaign while transferring an additional $10 million from her senate campaign account. at the time, obama trailed closely behind with $25 million.









the clinton campaign will also report that 91 percent of the donations it received were $100 or less in value. however, the clinton aide did not have a total for how many individual donors gave to the campaign.
hillary clinton raised $45 million in latest quarter
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