According to Sanders’s latest filing with the Federal Elections Commission, his campaign took in $15.6 million during the last full month of campaigning. That compared with $26.2 million for Clinton, the first time all year that the presumptive nominee has decisively out-raised her surprisingly powerful challenger. And it represented a steep fall from April, when he raised $25.8 million.As the money came in, however, Sanders spent it at a slower clip than previous months. He ended May with $9.2 million on hand, having ended the previous month
with just $5.8 million.
That’s compared to $1.29 million cash on hand for Donald Trump’s campaign, which means that the Democratic runner-up who has effectively stopped campaigning has septupled Trump in the cash department. Trump has lagged in the fundraising department all along, but like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable, has been impervious to damage up until now and like everyone else, has missed the Signs that trouble was coming. A general election, as Trump is finding out, is nothing like a Republican primary, a Village he may soon wish he could go back to.