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Pro-Hillary Clinton's super-PAC raises $11 million in March

By FnF Desk | PUBLISHED: 21, Apr 2016, 11:06 am IST | UPDATED: 21, Apr 2016, 11:06 am IST

Pro-Hillary Clinton's super-PAC raises $11 million in March NY: A pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC raised more than $11 million last month, the media reported on Wednesday.

The overall haul by Priorities USA, one of the biggest super-PACs supporting Democratic US presidential candidate Clinton, has amounted to $67 million and donours had committed to donating another $49 million in the coming months, CNN cited the group's spokesman Justin Barasky as saying, according to Xinhua.

The group's tally also came one day after Clinton scored a crucial primary victory in her adopted state of New York, which she represented in the US Senate for eight years.

So far, the group has reserved $125 million in television and digital advertising starting the day after California's Democratic primary on June 7, when Clinton campaign expects that the former secretary of state would by then have secured the party's nomination, according to the CNN report.

The group's tally comes a day after Clinton won the New York primary, a victory that has Democrats eager to turn their focus to the general election. Priorities USA, a group that has pledged to largely hold fire until Clinton in the nominee, plans to play a larger role at that point.

To date, the group has reserved $125 million in television and digital ads starting the day after California's June 8 primary, at which point the Clinton campaign expects to have secured the Democratic nomination.

The early ad reservations, which lock in cheaper rates than buying later in the cycle, will focus on the key general election swing states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia.

"Thanks to our fundraising success in the coming weeks and months, we will take additional steps to aggressively contrast the dangerous extremism of Republicans like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's record of raising wages, breaking barriers and protecting our country," said Barasky.

Priorities USA is expected to boost Clinton's general election operation. But the group has been a liability in the primary, where Sanders has used the super PAC to blast Clinton as all talk on campaign finance.

"Are you qualified to be president of the United States when you're raising millions of dollars from Wall Street, whose greed and recklessness helped destroy our economy?" Sanders asked during a speech this month where he said Clinton was not qualified to be president.

At last week's CNN/NY1 Democratic debate, Sanders said: "While we are on Wall Street, one of us has a super PAC. One of us has raised $15 million from Wall Street for that super PAC."

Despite Priorities USA's expected boost to Clinton's campaign during the general election, its formidable fundraising bid had so far become a liability to Clinton in a chaotic election cycle featuring grassroots protests against party establishment and big money in US politics.