Hillary Clinton set a record for the presidential campaign - $ 36 million per quarter

US presidential candidate, Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton broke all the previous records for raising funds for the presidential campaign and managed only in the first quarter of 2007 to attract $ 36 million to her pre-election campaign, of which 26 million were collected from donations, and 10 million have remained from the time of its election in the US Senate, according to the US Senate. DrudgerePort with reference to the Clinton election headquarters. The size of the collected donations for the presidential campaign is considered in the United States one of the main indicators of the success of the presidential race.

"We are shocked by enormous enthusiasm and historical support of this campaign," said the day before, the representative of the headquarters of the former first lady Patti Solis Doyle.

Representatives of the Clinton headquarters noted that $ 26 million were raised since January 20 of this year, 80% of all donations were up to $ 100, $ 4.2 million were transferred to her supporters over the Internet (including about 600 thousand dollars - for the last 36 hours of raising funds). The headquarters of the Democrats candidate noted that the funds received from 50 thousand donors representing all 50 states of the country.

It is still unknown which part of the funds raised will be used for primary elections, and which - for maintaining the presidential campaign in the event that Clinton becomes a candidate from the Democratic Party.

It is also not known how much Clinton spent in the first three months of 2007.

The amount of funds raised by Clinton far exceeds donations that they gathered in the previous presidential elections, and sets a high bar, by which it will be possible to judge the ability of its main rivals to attract third -party funds.

The Democratic Party showed the best result in collecting donations for the presidential campaign in March 2003, collecting 7.4 million, and all four leaders of the presidential race then raised about $ 23 million together. The current US President George Bush in the first three months of his electoral race in 1999 raised only 7.6 million, and his rival Albert Mountains - $ 8.9 million, which at that time also amounted to an unprecedentedly large amount.

Representatives of one of the competitors of Hillary Clinton Senator-Democrat Barack Obama have not yet reported how many funds he managed to raise, but they said that the campaign had already rendered more than 83 thousand donors. Obama, meanwhile, expressed confidence that his team will succeed, BBC reports.

At the same time, the former Democrat Senator John Edwards, who is considered the third in the ranking of popularity among possible presidential candidates from the Democratic Party, said that he received donations for $ 14 million, Interfax reports.