The massive investment that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is making on the airwaves dominated her spending in August, as her campaign plowed more than $33 million in ad production and airtime, a new campaign finance filing shows.<\/p>\n
Clinton’s media expenses accounted for 68 percent of the $49 million that her campaign raced through in its biggest spending month yet. She doled out another $5 million to pay 789 staffers in August. And she dramatically upped her polling, shelling out almost $1.3 million to five separate firms, up from $244,173 in July.<\/p>\n
The former secretary of state still ended the month with more than $68 million in the bank, thanks to her record-breaking fundraising in August. She collected $62.5 million for her campaign and $81 million for the Democratic National Committee and state parties, thanks to high-dollar fundraisers she headlined around the country.<\/p>\n
As Clinton was gathering those large checks, her small donations dropped, compared with the previous month. In August, contributions of $200 and less to her campaign totaled $17 million, down from $24 million in July, when both parties held their quadrennial nominating conventions. Officials said that they are on track to have their best online fundraising month in September.<\/p>\n
The dip came as GOP nominee Donald Trump saw huge growth in his small-donor base. By August, his campaign had collected contributions from 2.1 million individual donors, closing in on Clinton’s 2.3 million donors. About $70 million of the $90 million he raised in conjunction with the Republican National Committee in August were small donations raised online or through direct mail, officials said.<\/p>\n
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