Republican US presidential candidate Rand Paul has raised $7 million in the first quarter of his 2016 White House bid.
According to Paul’s campaign, mostly small-dollar donations were made to the Kentucky senator, a Tea Party favorite who inherited a national grassroots fundraising network from his father, former US Representative Ron Paul of Texas.
Paul received money from 108,205 donors and 96 percent of all donations were in amounts of $100 or less, his campaign organizers said.
Paul is considered a strong candidate among over a dozen of Republicans fighting to get the party nomination to become a candidate for the White House, but his fundraising effort lags behind rivals like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush raised $11.4 million in just over two weeks in June. And a group supporting Bush, Right to Rise USA, says it has amassed up to $103 million in the early months of his campaign.