Campaign finance experts at Market Watch have broken down where most of Trump’s donations are coming from, and Alabamians are outspending their fellow citizens from almost every other state.
Coming in at number 7, Alabama beat out 43 states in overall percentage of political donations sent to Donald Trump. Alabama’s neighbor, Mississippi, finished first, and southern states such as Georgia, Tennessee, and Louisiana rounded out the top 5.
“I don’t need your money, I need your vote. Keep your money, I don’t want any of your money,” Trump said at a New Hampshire rally back in February. But despite his perpetual claims that his campaign is entirely self-funded, the presumptive GOP nominee has still taken in $1.77 million in small-contribution donations.
While that number is dwarfed by the fundraising efforts of Hillary Clinton, the money still has to come from somewhere. In the Yellowhammer State, 1.54 percent of all political donations have gone to the Donald, accounting for a sum of $26,150.04. The average donation size is $458.77.
The state with the fewest percentage of Trump donors is Vermont, with only 0.11 percent of all donations going to the New York billionaire.
According to the campaign finance watchdog site Open Secrets, Hillary Clinton has raked in $44,956,020 from small individual contributions accounting for 20 percent of her campaign revenue.
Researchers removed duplicate donor data and grouped together donations made by people with the same name, living in the same state and ZIP Code, with the same occupation. They ultimately found 399,009 unique donors, of which 3,782 were supporting Trump nationwide.
