希拉里競選籌款創紀錄 Hillary Clinton raises record $45m in White House bid

Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the DeMocratic nomination for president, said her campaign expects to have raised more than $45m in her first three months as a candidate, beating President Barack Obama’s previous record and marking her financial dominance over the Democratic field.

在美國民主黨總統候選人提名競爭中領跑的希拉里•克林頓(Hillary Clinton)表示，在她宣佈參選後的頭三個月裏，她的競選班子預計已籌集到逾4500萬美元，超過了美國總統巴拉克•奧巴馬(Barack Obama)此前創造的紀錄。這件事標誌着，在民主黨內部選戰中，希拉里在財力方面佔據了優勢。

Campaign officials said on Wednesday that the amount raised during the quarter ended in June was greater than their own expectations, with 91 per cent of donations made at below $100.

週三，希拉里競選班子的官員稱，在截至6月份的這個季度裏，籌款總額超出了他們自己的預期。在所有捐款中，金額在100美元以下的佔了91%。

That is an important indicator that Mrs Clinton’s strategy of building an infrastructure to target the individual, small-dollar donors who are vital to a successful grassroots campaign finance operation is paying off. However, the total number of donations may fall short of the 50,000 target the campaign had sought.

這一現象突顯出，希拉里瞄準個人小額捐款者建立基礎架構的戰略正在取得收效。這些個人小額捐款者對於成功的草根競選籌款運作至關重要。不過，總的捐款筆數可能低於希拉里競選班子此前希望達到的目標，即5萬筆。

“Many people doubted whether we could build an organisation powered by so many grassroots supporters,” said Robby Mook, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager, in an email to supporters. “Today’s announcement proves them wrong.”

在發給支持者的一封電子郵件中，希拉里競選班子負責人羅比•穆克(Robby Mook)表示：“許多人認爲我們無法建立起一個由衆多草根支持者支撐的競選組織。今天公佈的消息證明，他們錯了。”

The previous record for the amount of money raised by a candidate in the first three months for a primary contest was $41.9m in 2011 by Mr Obama, campaign officials said.

競選班子的官員表示，在此之前，候選人在宣佈參加初選後頭三個月裏創造的籌款紀錄是4190萬美元，這是由奧巴馬在2011年創造的。