Hillary Clinton's campaign began August with more than $58 million on hand. | AP Photo Clinton campaign reports nearly $90 million raised in July

Hillary Clinton raised nearly $90 million between her campaign and joint fundraising committees with the national and state parties in July, setting her up to enter August — and the campaign's home stretch — with more than $58 million on hand.

The haul, announced by the campaign on Tuesday, came as Clinton and her allies started fully training their sights on Donald Trump after a bruising primary against Bernie Sanders. It represents only the second month when Clinton raised money earmarked for both the primary and general election.


The Democratic nominee has been investing heavily in a ground game in the battleground states, but also in blanketing the television airwaves with anti-Trump spots, an expensive proposition against a candidate who raised $35.8 million on his own in July.

Yet Trump has only recently started building up his own finance operation, and Clinton has the further advantage of a constellation of super PACs working to support her across the country.

Clinton's camp said 54 percent of her contributions came from new donors in July — when Clinton formally became the nominee at the party convention in Philadelphia — and it pointed to signs that its online fundraising machine was kicking into high gear after paling in comparison to Sanders'.

The former secretary of state's campaign brought in more than $8.7 million in a 24-hour period surrounding her acceptance speech at the convention, the campaign said.

The average donation for the month was $44.

"We come out of the Democratic National Convention with our party united and our supporters energized for the final 98 days of this campaign," campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. "Our goal for the next 98 days is to take the remarkable outpouring of support we saw as Hillary Clinton took the stage in Philadelphia and build on our efforts to organize and mobilize millions of voters to elect progressive candidates up and down the ballot in November."

Of the nearly $90 million raised, Clinton's campaign said around $63 million went to the campaign directly, while $26 million was raised for the Democratic National Committee and various state parties. Trump's campaign has not yet released its monthly fundraising totals, though the Republican nominee himself put the total for the campaign without joint fundraising agreements at $35.8 million during a Monday campaign event in Ohio.

Clinton's campaign itself raised more than $8.7 million in the 24 hours around her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, between 8 p.m. last Thursday and 8 p.m. last Friday.