2016 United States presidential election

=== Campaign finance ===
{{See also|Lobbying in the United States}}

[[Wall Street]] spent a record $2 billion trying to influence the 2016 United States presidential election.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wall Street spends record $2bn on US election lobbying |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5060844a-0420-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9 |work=[[Financial Times]] |date=March 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Wall Street Spent $2 Billion Trying to Influence the 2016 Election |url=https://fortune.com/2017/03/08/wall-street-2016-election-spending/ |work=[[Fortune_(magazine) | Fortune]] |date=March 8, 2017}}</ref>

The following table is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it is reported to [[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) and released in September 2016. Outside groups are [[independent expenditure]]-only committees—also called [[Political action committee|PACs and SuperPACs]]. <!-- Several such groups normally support each candidate, but the numbers in the table are a total of all of them. This means that a group of committees can be shown as [[Insolvency|technically insolvent]] (shown in red) even though it is not the case of all of them. The Campaign Committee's debt are shown in red if the campaign is technically insolvent. --> The sources of the numbers are the FEC and [[OpenSecrets]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2016 Presidential Race |url=http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/ |publisher=[[OpenSecrets]]}}</ref> Some spending totals are not available, due to withdrawals before the FEC deadline. {{as of|2016|September|df=US}}, ten candidates with ballot access have filed financial reports with the FEC.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:12px; text-align: center;"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Candidate
! colspan="4" |Campaign committee <small>(as of December 9)</small>
! colspan="3" |Outside groups <small>(as of December 9)</small>
! rowspan="2" |Total spent
|-
! Money raised
! Money spent
! Cash on hand
! Debt
! Money raised
! Money spent
! Cash on hand
|-
|data-sort-value="Trump, Donald" |[[Donald Trump]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00023864 |title=Summary data for Donald Trump, 2016 Cycle |work=opensecrets.org |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108204729/https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00023864|archive-date=November 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80001571/?cycle=2016&election_full=false#total-spent |title=TRUMP, DONALD J. / MICHAEL R. PENCE - Candidate overview |publisher=Federal Election Commission |website=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112042552/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80001571/?cycle=2016&election_full=false|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>
|$350,668,435
|$343,056,732
|$7,611,702
|$0
|$100,265,563
|$97,105,012
|$3,160,552
|'''$440,161,744'''
|-
|data-sort-value="Clinton, Hillary" |[[Hillary Clinton]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00000019 |title=Summary data for Hillary Clinton, 2016 Cycle |work=opensecrets.org |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108115550/http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16//candidate?id=N00000019|archive-date=November 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00003392/#total-spent |title=CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM / TIMOTHY MICHAEL KAINE - Candidate overview |publisher=Federal Election Commission |website=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903090414/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00003392/|archive-date=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
|$585,699,061
|$585,580,576
|$323,317
|$182
|$206,122,160
|$205,144,296 
|$977,864
|'''$790,724,872'''
|-
|data-sort-value="Johnson, Gary" |[[Gary Johnson]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00033226 |title=Summary data for Gary Johnson, 2016 Cycle |work=opensecrets.org |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108102246/https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00033226|archive-date=November 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P20002671/#total-spent |title=JOHNSON, GARY / WILLIAM "BILL" WELD - Candidate overview |publisher=Federal Election Commission |website=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920184131/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P20002671/|archive-date=September 20, 2020}}</ref>
|$12,193,984
|$12,463,110
|$6,299
|$0
|$1,386,971
|$1,314,095
|$75,976
|'''$13,777,205'''
|-
|data-sort-value="De La Fuente, Rocky" |[[Rocky De La Fuente]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60016342/?cycle=2016&election_full=true|title=DE LA FUENTE, ROQUE ROCKY - Candidate overview|website=FEC.gov|language=en|access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112050241/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60016342/?cycle=2016&election_full=true|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>
|$8,075,959
|$8,074,913
|$1,046
|$8,058,834
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$8,074,913'''
|-
|data-sort-value="Stein, Jill" |[[Jill Stein]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00033776 |title=Summary data for Jill Stein, 2016 Cycle |work=opensecrets.org |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108132119/https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00033776|archive-date=November 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P20003984/ |title=STEIN, JILL - Candidate overview|publisher=Federal Election Commission |website=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 11, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813003110/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P20003984/|archive-date=August 13, 2020}}</ref>
|$11,240,359
|$11,275,899
|$105,132
|$87,740
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$11,275,899'''
|-
|data-sort-value="McMullin, Evan" |[[Evan McMullin]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60022654/|title=MCMULLIN, EVAN / MINDY FINN - Candidate overview|publisher=Federal Election Commission |work=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 12, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112051232/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60022654/|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>
|$1,644,102
|$1,642,165
|$1,937
|$644,913
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$1,642,165'''
|-
|data-sort-value="Castle, Darrell" |Darrell Castle<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60021102/ |title=CASTLE, DARRELL LANE - Candidate overview |publisher=Federal Election Commission |work=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 12, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112051556/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60021102/|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>
|$72,264
|$68,063
|$4,200
|$4,902
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$68,063'''
|-
|data-sort-value="La Riva, Gloria" |[[Gloria La Riva]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80005572/?cycle=2016&election_full=true |title=LA RIVA, GLORIA ESTELA - Candidate overview |publisher=Federal Election Commission |work=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 12, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721082243/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P80005572/?cycle=2016&election_full=true|archive-date=July 21, 2020}}</ref>
|$31,408
|$32,611
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$32,611'''
|-
|data-sort-value="Moorehead, Monica" |[[Monica Moorehead]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60004405/ |title=MOOREHEAD, MONICA GAIL - Candidate overview|publisher=Federal Election Commission |work=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 12, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112052129/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60004405/|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>
|$14,313
|$15,355
|<!--leave this space to avoid table formatting breakage--> -$1,043
|<!--leave this space to avoid table formatting breakage--> -$5,500<ref group=upper-alpha>Debt owed ''to'' committee</ref>
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$15,355'''
|-
|data-sort-value="Skewes, Peter" |[[Peter Skewes]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60012960/ |title=SKEWES, PETER ALAN PH.D. - Candidate overview |publisher=Federal Election Commission |work=fec.gov |year=2016 |access-date=November 12, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112052402/https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60012960/|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>
|$8,216
|$8,216
|$0
|$4,000
|$0
|$0
|$0
|'''$8,216'''
|}
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