WPRO News and the Associated Press
Fresh off a presidential debate performance that was widely panned as inadequate, Democrat Lincoln Chafee says he raised just $11,000 in the third quarter – what amounts to a rounding error for other Democratic candidates.
Chafee, the former one-term governor of Rhode Island, said in a filing with the Federal Election Commission he raised $11,336 in contributions from people other than himself in the three months ended Sept. 30.
It amounts to around 0.04 percent of what rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each raised in the same period.
He put in $4,000 more of his own money by paying out of pocket for things like gas, parking meters and Facebook.
Chafee has insisted he’s staying in the race as long as he can raise important issues.
