Donald Trump has officially contributed $10 million towards his presidential campaign, according to Federal Election Commission data.
The donation, which brings the total amount of cash that the self-described multibillionaire has committed to his election bid to $60 million, comes on the same day Trump vowed in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier to contribute millions to his campaign before the Nov. 8 election.
“I’m going to put up some more as we need it,” the GOP nominee said in the interview. “And what it takes is what it takes, and we’re watching very closely.”
The donation Friday also comes after reports showed Trump had given only $31,000 to his campaign in early October.
The meager sum donated in October underscored the massive spending advantage that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton enjoys over Trump.
As of Oct. 19, Clinton’s campaign had $62 million on hand compared to the Trump campaign’s $16 million. And that’s on top of the more than $100 million that Clinton and her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., raised for the Democratic Party between Oct. 1 and Oct. 19.
“They have a machine,” Trump opined in his interview with Baier. “The Democrats are a machine. We don’t have a machine, the Republicans. We have sadly, people that are in a leadership capacity that almost like not for us.”
The Republican candidate was also pushed in the same interview on whether he’d make good on his oft-repeated promise to donate $100 million to his own campaign by Election Day.
He declined to give a hard answer.
“Well I’m going to meet what I have to meet, but I’m going to put more money in, I think I’m putting $10 million more today, and again, again, I’m putting my money. She’s not putting any of her money in,” Trump said.
