NEW YORK_Hillary Clinton extended her financial advantage in the presidential race's final weeks, amassing a $153 million war chest that is more than twice as large as Donald Trump's.
Clinton raised $101 million in the first 19 days of October for her campaign and a pair of committees that share funds with the Democratic Party, according to filings Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. The documents give a final glimpse of the candidates' financial position before the Nov. 8 election.
Over the same period, Trump raised $61 million for his party and his joint committees, and had $68 million on hand as of Oct. 19.
Clinton has dominated the money race all along, and in October her campaign and allied groups together passed the $1 billion fundraising mark for the entire election cycle. While Clinton and her family have cultivated relationships with party financiers for decades, Trump bragged about his independence from donors during the Republican primary, and mostly self-funded his campaign until defeating the last of his GOP rivals in May.
Trump didn't report any contributions to his campaign during the first 19 days of October beyond $30,682 worth of in-kind contributions of staff time and rent. He's made a $2 million cash contribution to his campaign near the end of each of the three previous months. He signaled Thursday that he may be getting ready to write another check, sending out fundraising e-mails promising to "triple-match" any contributions sent between now and the end of the month.
Trump has repeatedly pledged to spend a total of $100 million or more on the election. As of Oct. 19, he'd put up $56 million.
During the October fundraising period, Trump's standing in the polls declined following the release of a recording in which he made lewd remarks about women, and the subsequent claims by several women that he kissed or groped them without their permission.
The main super-political action committee supporting Clinton, Priorities USA, reported raising $18 million in the period, led by $3 million from the hedge-fund pioneer James Simons and his wife, Marilyn. A pair of super-PACs supporting Trump, Rebuilding America Now and Make America Number 1, each reported less than $300,000 of income over the same timeframe.
