CNN reports.

Washington Free Beacon: Swiss billionaire and seven-figure Clinton Foundation donor is pouring millions of dollars into a nonprofit voter registration and turnout operation and appears to have shared information about the project with the Democratic Party, a leaked document… Continue reading

WaPo: Raising such a huge sum in a short amount of time — through an email list that had never before been tapped for contributions — would make Trump’s pitch for donations one of the most successful in American politics,… Continue reading

Advisory opinion.  

Bloomberg reports.

I have written this piece for CNN. It begins: 2016 was supposed to be the presidential election where big money didn’t matter. After all, the shock-and-awe campaign of Jeb Bush’s Super PAC, with its nine-figure budget, was far less… Continue reading

NYT: Even the stark disparity in cash on hand may understate the desperate straits in which Mr. Trump finds himself. His fund-raising, led largely by the Republican National Committee, has slowed. He canceled a fund-raiser with 90 people in Boston… Continue reading

I am skeptical he could come close to self-funding his campaign. Hard to figure out the strategy here, if there is one.

WSJ: Tuesday’s fundraising email suggests Mr. Trump is unnerved by the substantial financial lead Mrs. Clinton holds over him. But donating up to $2 million next month to his campaign would not be a real departure for Mr. Trump,… Continue reading

NYT: Donald J. Trump enters the general election campaign laboring under the worst financial and organizational disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history, placing both his candidacy and party in political peril. Mr. Trump began June with… Continue reading

The Intercept: Sadly, however, there are still rules forbidding campaign staffers from explicitly asking the incredibly rich to give more than $5,000 to Super PACs like Priorities USA. They are loose rules, and rarely enforced rules, but they are… Continue reading

Matea Gold for WaPo: The Republican National Committee took on $2 million more debt in May as it finalized a joint fundraising agreement with Donald Trump’s campaign, underscoring how the real estate mogul’s lack of a fundraising structure has put … Continue reading

Matea Gold reports for WaPo.