希拉里竞选筹款创纪录 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.

在美国民主党总统候选人提名竞争中领跑的希拉里•克林顿(Hillary Clinton)表示，在她宣布参选后的头三个月里，她的竞选班子预计已筹集到逾4500万美元，超过了美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)此前创造的纪录。这件事标志着，在民主党内部选战中，希拉里在财力方面占据了优势。

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.

周三，希拉里竞选班子的官员称，在截至6月份的这个季度里，筹款总额超出了他们自己的预期。在所有捐款中，金额在100美元以下的占了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.

这一现象突显出，希拉里瞄准个人小额捐款者建立基础架构的战略正在取得收效。这些个人小额捐款者对于成功的草根竞选筹款运作至关重要。不过，总的捐款笔数可能低于希拉里竞选班子此前希望达到的目标，即5万笔。

“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.”

在发给支持者的一封电子邮件中，希拉里竞选班子负责人罗比•穆克(Robby Mook)表示：“许多人认为我们无法建立起一个由众多草根支持者支撑的竞选组织。今天公布的消息证明，他们错了。”

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.

竞选班子的官员表示，在此之前，候选人在宣布参加初选后头三个月里创造的筹款纪录是4190万美元，这是由奥巴马在2011年创造的。