Democratic presidential candidate former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has raised barely $30,000 during the first quarter of his presidential campaign.
According to his report filed with the Federal Election Commission, Chafee has netted only $29,049 from supporters since he announced his campaign in early June. He has supplemented the paltry contributions with about $364,000 of his own money.
Chafee, who is polling last among his Democratic competition nationally, has a tiny fraction of the amount that liberal frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have accumulated since the starts of their respective campaigns.
Clinton collected $45 million in the first quarter of her campaign, 1,500 times more than the contents of Chafee’s war chest. In fact, the former secretary of state raised over $500,000 per day in her first quarter, meaning she raked in over 18 times in one day what Chafee has received since the start of his campaign.
Sanders has raised $15 million, 500 times more than Chafee.
According to his FEC report, Chafee has spent about $64,000 since the start of his campaign, meaning he has dropped more than twice the amount he has made in contributions.