President Barack Obama and the DNC raised over $70 million for the President’s reelection campaign in the third fundraising quarter, according to the Obama campaign.
“It all happened during a summer when the President was focused on doing the job he was elected to do — a summer when we had to cancel a series of fundraising events and ask everyone to dig a little deeper,” Obama campaign Manager Jim Messina said in a statement released Thursday morning.
The 2012 campaign reports that the July-September donations came via 606,027 individuals that made 766,000 donations, 98 percent of which were $250 or less. To date, Messina notes, 982,967 individuals have contributed.
The numbers exceed the campaign’s initial third quarter goal of $55 million. In the first quarter the President raised $47 million followed by a record setting $86 million in the second quarter.
According to various media reports, Mitt Romney, who has led the GOP field in total fundraising, is expected to announce approximately $14 million in third quarter contributions.