Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE’s White House bid got a real bump after the Democratic National Convention — from her lobbyist fundraisers.

Sixty-two lobbyists raised nearly $11 million for Clinton from July through September of this year, according to recently filed disclosure forms, a dramatic increase over previous quarters.

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In the weeks surrounding the convention, the Hillary Victory Fund — a joint fundraising committee the Clinton camp shares with the Democratic National Committee and 32 state party committees — took in $10.6 million raised by lobbyists. Donors can give more than $350,000 to the joint venture with a single check. K Streeters bundled an additional $300,000 for Clinton’s campaign account, known as Hillary for America, during the same period.

Two lobbyists brought in the top amount in the third quarter, about $1.6 million: Richard Sullivan, a veteran Democratic fundraiser now at Capitol Counsel, and Ankit Desai, a lobbyist at Cheniere Energy.

Other boldface names include Liz Robbins of Liz Robbins Associates, with $741,000 bundled; Linda Lipsen at the American Association for Justice, at $575,566; Al Mottur of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, with $533,575; and Fred Humphries of Microsoft at $458,328.

“As the choice narrows between two people for president — and one person self-implodes on television day after day — it gets easier to ask people to make a bigger sacrifice and write a bigger check,” Mottur, a shareholder at Brownstein’s Washington office, told The Hill.

First-time Clinton bundlers blasting onto the third-quarter list include John Jonas, a top healthcare lobbyist at Akin Gump, DLA Piper’s Matthew Bernstein and Karissa Willhite of Ogilvy Government Relations.

Lobbyists have bundled $19.6 million for Clinton over the course of the Democrat’s presidential campaign.

A majority of the bundled funds — about $12.7 million since the campaign began — went into the Hillary Victory Fund. The remaining $6.9 million bundled from lobbyists since April 2015 went into Clinton’s campaign account, according to an analysis of disclosure forms by The Hill.

Mottur said he has even been fundraising from Republicans to help Clinton’s campaign.

“It’s an unconventional campaign in that sense,” he said. “People helping Hillary Clinton can solicit money from Republicans. That was not expected, but it has become fertile ground, given their nominee.”

While the limits on the joint fundraising committee run into six figures, bundlers for the campaign account must collect smaller donations. Contributors can only give a campaign up to $2,700 per election.

In addition to the massive checks they collected for the Hillary Victory Fund, the top lobbyist fundraisers for the Hillary for America campaign account include:

• Capitol Counsel’s David Jones, who raised $762,666 for the campaign alone.

• Richard Sullivan, also at Capitol Counsel, brought in $592,891.

• Holly Macarro, of Ietan Consulting, bundled $430,900.

• Heather Podesta, of Heather Podesta + Partners, raised $406,878.

• Steve Elmendorf, of Subject Matter, bundled $360,084.

Bundlers, usually an elite tier of lobbyists or well-connected individuals, solicit donations from others and submit the checks to the campaign. Being a bundler can give individuals cachet with a candidate.

If lobbyists collect at least $17,600 in checks from donors, candidates are required to report the K Street-based fundraising to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on a quarterly basis.

Campaigns do not have to disclose the identity of bundlers who are not registered lobbyists.

Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE, the Republican presidential nominee, has not received enough cash bundled by a lobbyist to trigger the reporting threshold.

While many GOP lobbyists have said they will vote for Trump, the billionaire has not fostered much of a relationships with Washington’s advocacy class.

Some Republicans on K Street, like David Urban of American Continental Group, former Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.) of the Livingston Group, former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) at Squire Patton Boggs, and David Tamasi of Rasky Baerlein have lent support to the campaign in one way or another.

The donations are a departure from the previous presidential campaign cycle, when President Obama eschewed donations — either directly or in bundled form — from K Street.

Meanwhile, lobbyists cobbled together $17.3 million for Republican nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 election cycle, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Though he has employed several lobbyists on his transition team — including Mike Catanzaro of CGCN Group on his energy team — Trump has bashed lobbyists on the campaign trail.

“If I am elected president, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.,” Trump told a crowd in June.

Trump unveiled an ethics reform plan on Monday evening that would create a five-year “cooling off” period for former lawmakers to lobby their old colleagues. Former House members now must wait one year before registering to lobby Capitol Hill, and former senators are required to “cool off” for two years.

The plan would also “close loopholes” that allow people to engage in advocacy-connected activities without registering to lobby, though the plan does not specify what parts of the lobbying disclosure law would be changed.

Clinton has not outlined any concrete plan for lobbying reform but has detailed changes for the campaign finance system including requiring the disclosure of all political spending and overturning the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that led to the creation of super PACs.

Lobbyists who bundled more than $100,000 for Clinton campaign, Hillary for America, and the joint fundraising committee shared with national and state Democratic parties, Hillary Victory Fund, from June through September 2016.

Name Employer Amount Richard Sullivan Capitol Counsel LLC $1,637,267 Ankit Desai Cheniere Energy, Inc. $1,575,600 Liz Robbins Liz Robbins Associates $741,700 Linda Lipsen American Association for Justice $575,566 Al Mottur Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP $533,575 Fred Humphries Microsoft $458,328 Heather Podesta Heather Podesta + Partners $408,469 John Jonas Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP $400,000 David W. Jones Capitol Counsel LLC $326,880 Matthew Bernstein DLA Piper $311,500 Karissa Willhite Ogilvy Government Relations $307,100 Christopher Scott Fay The Sheridan Group $203,807 Steve Elmendorf Subject Matter $200,694 Susan Esserman Steptoe & Johnson LLP $177,185 Tony Podesta Podesta Group $152,385 Casey Sixkiller Sixkiller Consulting, LLC $150,000 David J. Leiter ML Strategies, LLC $147,378 Hon. Martin Chavez Self-employed $145,681 Andrew Smith McGuireWoods Consulting $144,195 H. Benson Dendy, III The Vectre Corporation $142,500 Frances Visco National Breast Cancer Coalition $130,550 League of Conservation Voters Action Fund League of Conservation Voters $121,815 Michael Smith Cornerstone Government Affairs $120,000 Justin Gray Gray Global Advisors, LLC $110,750 Ingrid Duran D&P Creative Strategies, LLC $110,100 Marilyn Yager Alston & Bird LLP $101,950 Holly Fechner Covington & Burling LLP $100,900

Source: FEC records, tallied by The Hill

Lobbyists who bundled more than $300,000 for Clinton campaign, Hillary for America, and the joint fundraising committee shared with national and state Democratic parties, Hillary Victory Fund, during the two-year campaign cycle:

Name Employer Amount Richard Sullivan Capitol Counsel LLC $2,628,516 Ankit Desai Cheniere Energy, Inc. $1,862,300 David W. Jones Capitol Counsel LLC $1,205,671 Frederick Humphries Microsoft $1,065,073 Linda Lipsen American Association for Justice $1,039,167 Liz Robbins Liz Robbins Associates $949,185 Heather Podesta Heather Podesta + Partners $815,347 Al Mottur Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP $807,531 Steve Elmendorf Subject Matter $614,406 Holly Macarro Ietan Consulting $497,700 Tony Podesta Podesta Group $451,420 Matthew Bernstein DLA Piper LLP $410,870 John Jonas Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP $400,000 Hon. Martin Chávez Self-Employed $370,950 David Leiter ML Strategies, LLC $356,148 Andrew Smith McGuireWoods Consulting $344,045 Michael Smith Cornerstone Government Affairs $318,750 Jerry Crawford Crawford & Mauro Law Firm $314,353 Christopher Scott Fay The Sheridan Group $313,807 Karissa Willhite Ogilvy Government Relations $307,100

Source: FEC records, tallied by The Hill