Clinton raises record $45 million in first campaign quarter

Hillary Clinton announced Wednesday she raised a record $45 million in the first quarter of her US presidential bid, putting the Democratic frontrunner in prime financial position in the opening months of her 2016 campaign. "Here's what we know: In the first quarter of this campaign, supporters gave more than $45 million," Clinton wrote in a tweet.
Final figures will be released once her campaign files its fundraising report in July. Signalling successful grassroots efforts to raise modest amounts across a broad platform of supporters, her campaign said that 91 percent of the donations from April through June were $100 or less. Clinton officially launched her White House run on April 12. In a Wednesday fundraising email, campaign manager Robby Mook described it as "a new record for this early in a campaign." It surpasses the $41.9 million raised by President Barack Obama in 2011 at the start of his re-election campaign, according to The Washington Post.