Hillary Clinton’s campaign blew past their fundraising goal for 2015

The US Department of State released the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as Secretary of State last night, but still failed to meet the number of documents a federal judge required the government to make public by the end of 2015.

In a sign that the Clinton operation is also looking past the nominating contest, the campaign said that while it was soliciting donations only for the primaries, it had also raised $1 million to be used in the general election.

The third of the major Democrats running for office, the former Governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, has trailed both Clinton and O’Malley since the start of the fundraising.

“At the beginning of this campaign, Hillary Clinton set a goal of $100 million in primary contributions for 2015 and blew past that goal, raising more than $112 million in primary money for the year”, her campaign said in a statement. Sanders is hoping to surprise Clinton in Iowa and then use his New England ties to defeat her in the New Hampshire primary on February 9, where polls have shown him with a slight advantage.

New York-based real estate tycoon Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate, is funding his own campaign, while his colleague Jeb Bush – whose campaign is struggling at this point – had crossed $100-million figure months ago.

The State Department has been releasing the totality of Clinton’s work emails from her time as USA top diplomat, amounting to tens of thousands of missives peppered with sometimes quirky insights.

According to the campaign, Sanders’ 2,513,665 donations broke a previous record set by President Barack Obama during his reelection bid when he hauled in 2,209,636 donations.

Like Clinton, Sanders also signed a joint fundraising effort with the DNC this quarter, starting to raise money for the national party in November. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign said it had raised almost $20 million in the fourth quarter and estimated that he would finish the year having raised more than $45 million. Sanders’ aides bragged that the campaign raised $2.5 million in the two days after the first Democratic debate in Las Vegas.