Hillary $10 Million Claims Questioned

As I suspected, the "Hillary raised $10 million online overnight" report that the Washington Post ran with earlier today was too good to be true. I don't know if the mistake is the reporter's or if someone at Camp Hillary was spinning a bit too fast, but there's no way they raised that much since her win in Pennsylvania yesterday.

An email from Terry McAuliffe, Clinton campaign chairman, that I received three hours ago, says "More than 50,000 people have contributed to the campaign for the very first time in the last 24 hours alone." If 80% of Clinton's donations are from new givers, that implies a total number of about 60,000 donations. If we're very generous and assume an average donation of $100, which is high for first-time donors, that gives Clinton a current take of at most $6 million.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[AdamX]

If the Clinton camp verifies it, it must be true! Just like Bosnia, NAFTA, and ducks!

[mishte]

They gave a different number to the Seattle Times:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $10 million in the 24 hours after winning the Pennsylvania primary, aided by contributions from 80,000 new donors, her campaign said Thursday.

The $10 million came from a total of 100,000 donors, spokesman Mo Elleithee said."

80,000 NEW donors in 24 hours? Oh, right. The source isn't exactly trustworthy. This reminds me of when she put out the message that her campaign staff was working for free, which generated a flood of contributions, only to be followed up the next day with, "we didn't mean that."

All this while she targets a good candidate with the politics of personal distruction. Good grief.

[FogBelter]

I'm sure she came up with $10 million ... she needed to to support the idea of "The Tide is Turning" ... where the money REALLY came from, God knows?

[margi]

The same way HRC is confused about who is truly winning the popular votes, the same way she can't manage her $$, this is a prelude of how she will run the economy. She can't pay her vendors, her staff, their health care . no no!!!!!!!!!, we can't afford someone who can not even manage her campaign money , Nation remember she spent almost $95,000 just on pizzas.

America wake up , don't fall for HRC , she might feed the whole country with Pizzas everyday, we would owe all pizzerias in town a trillion of $$ , pizzerias would all go bankrupt under HRC administration. When people will get obese and sick because of eating too many pizza's , no hospitals or doctors would treat them , simply because HRC would have run a huge deficit on health care .

It does not look good when a presidential candidate is being sued for non payment by vendors.

Nation , that's it , enough with this nonsense, no matter what she tries to say or do HRC has lost the nomination, remember she said McCain is better than Obama, this is what sealed her faitth. She is no longer and has never been a democrat.

[ggmome]

INTERESTING! 10 Million in debt, and just 'happened' to raise 10 million over night! Sounds like robbing Peter to pay Paul to me. How convenient!

[AdamX]

The only thing Hillary has ever raised in 24 hours is suspicion, anger and lies.

[xcrunner77]

Come on. Hillary would never lie about her fundraising numbers. Hey, is that sniper fire I hear?

[DMW1]

Ha! Now the FEC is being asked to look into the Elton John concert. Just a few more broken laws - nothing new for the Clinton clan:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61681

[poles]

I think it is great that people decieded to give millions of dollars to Hillary, now she can pay her bills for her campaign. I really don't understand why people would give her money. She has a background full of scandals, a habit of telling lies and she does not understand foreign leaders. Hopefully Hillary will pay the bills before doing anything else.

[wmholt]

It makes me wonder - is Hillary staying in the race to pay her own loans back that she made to the campaign?

[kamldp]

Silly you! Since when did telling the truth matter?

[Lvm]

Don't forget, 4 million goes to Mark Penn. Clinton supporters must be so proud that their hard earned dollars are going into the pocket of Hillary's former lobbiest/friend/hatchet man. Gosh, she could have saved all that money...she's quite capable of trashing her own party all by herself.

[livesimply]

She's a liar, but hey, she's a damn good liar! That's the buzz on the MSM. Really, c'mon, who cares if she's a liar and a phony. She's convinced a lot of people who don't take the trouble to get informed and get their information from lizard brain sound bites and name-calling that she is the best candidate. The republicans LOVE her!

[northcan]

I have read that all of Bill Clinton's accounts and Companies, foundations etc., are under investigation, also the court case in California for 'campaign fraud' is coming up....that is why their broke. They have to use the legal ways of raising money... Obama raises his by mass donations from voter's contributing very small amounts. That is what Clinton asked her voter's for the other night again today.. Unfortunately for them doing it the legal way is hard for her. Isn't that pathetic? The other day, also, Federal Court issued federal officers at polls for security against 'election fraud'. First time i've heard Federal court get involved...I think this is what is making Bill Clinton so angry...being watched.

[northcan]

Richard M. Scaife, Pittsburg Billionaire just endorsed Clinton last week remember? I wonder....he's could spare $10 mil. for Hillary, she made herself available while in Pennsylvania, to Mr. Scaife...he liked her toughness. I guess some men just get turned on by the whole Rocky Hillary thing? I think Hollywood should sign her up, she has more persona's than Dare's has jellybeans. Notice Bubba's red nose everywhere he goes? .....hmmm Do we really want these to in Power??? How many more kneecaps is he going to break for Hillary? I think they will implode before the fall...

[ATLiberal]

I'm happy for Hillary! After she uses her newfound $10 million to pay off her screaming creditors, her campaign will only be $2 or 3 million in the hole! (Maybe)