Reports show that Donald Trump’s fundraising lagged further behind that of Hillary Clinton down the campaign home stretch. | AP Photo Trump raised $11.5 million on day 'Access Hollywood' tape broke But the GOP nominee was lapped by Clinton in overall fundraising.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign brought in $30.5 million in the first three weeks of this month — including a whopping $11.5 million or more on the day that a tape was released of him boasting about groping women — according to a report filed Thursday night with the Federal Election Commission.

Overall, though, reports show that Trump’s fundraising lagged further behind that of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton down the home stretch of a bitter campaign in which she has opened up a wide lead.


Between the beginning of this month and Oct. 19 — the period covered by the last regular FEC reports due before the Nov. 8 election — Clinton raised $52.8 million, or 73 percent more than Trump brought in.

Clinton’s advantage over the course of the entire election cycle was even wider: her campaign had raised $513 million compared to $255 million for Trump.

Notably, Trump, a billionaire real estate showman who has taken to boasting that he would spend $100 million on his campaign, was nowhere near that mark as of the period covered by Thursday’s report. He donated $31,000 to his campaign during the first three weeks of this month to bring his self-funding total to $56.1 million for the campaign.

Perhaps ironically, though, Trump has raised a substantially higher percentage of his cash from small donors than Clinton. The candidates each brought in around $8.5 million this month from donors who have given $200 or less. Small donors tend to give online, often in response to appeals pegged to news events in the campaign.

That could explain Trump’s fundraising surge on the day that The Washington Post published a decade-old recording in which Trump boasted about groping and kissing women without their consent. The Trump campaign sought to rally his supporters by casting the report as part of a media vendetta against him, though the $11.5 million haul on that day does not include donations of $200 or less, since those aren’t itemized by date in FEC reports.

Regardless of Trump’s success with small donors, Clinton entered the final three weeks of the campaign with nearly four times more cash in the bank than Trump — $62.4 million to $16 million — despite having spent $450 million building a thoroughly superior campaign organization to Trump’s campaign, which had spent a relatively paltry $239 million since the beginning of his campaign.