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Hillary leads in fund-raising race

Ewen MacAskill

Washington: In what is shaping up to be the costliest U.S. presidential election in history, Hillary Clinton raised $6 million over the last week, including $2.6 million at one event.

Ms Clinton is thought to be leading the Democratic field in terms of finance as well as the opinion polls, but the true figures will not be known until next month.

All 19 candidates for presidential nomination have to file details of how much they raised during the first three months of the year with the Federal Election Commission by midnight on April 15. These will be published the next day and will provide the first concrete figures of the campaign, with each candidate ranked in terms of their ability to raise money. —

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