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Donald Trump finally ramped up his campaign spending. So where did the money go?

Last month at this time, regular readers will recall, we posed this question: Donald Trump is finally raising money. So why isn’t he spending it? The Republican presidential nominee had shelled out just $18.4 million in July, about a third of the amount that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton raced through that month.

NRA working to run up Trump’s margins in rural areas

Donald Trump is focusing on running up his margin of victory in rural areas to offset his weakness in the suburbs.

The National Rifle Association is boosting this effort with a $5 million advertising campaign focused on smaller media markets in battleground states.

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had their best fundraising months yet in August, with Clinton bringing in $59.5 million and Trump $41 million, according to new Federal Election Commission filings released Tuesday. How they spend their money is vastly different.

Clinton raised more than her Republican rival and she also spent more than him. She spent $49.6 million in August compared to Trump’s $29.9 million.

Clinton air war fails to sink Trump

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and its allies are outspending their Republican counterparts by a factor of about five to one, according to a new analysis released Tuesday.

But the former secretary of State has failed to put away Donald Trump, and many anxious Democrats are baffled as to why the race remains so close.

Trump Campaign Vows to Fund Florida Push, Official Says, but Cash Is in Limbo

The campaign of Donald J. Trump, whose grass-roots organizing in Florida is far behind that of conventional presidential nominees, promised $1.9 million for a ground game in the state but has yet to come through with the money, less than five weeks before early voting begins.

Warning that there is “no time to waste,” Susan Wiles, Mr. Trump’s Florida state director, wrote in an internal email on Sunday that the campaign’s New York leaders gave a “green light” to begin spending a seven-figure sum for a field program to get out the vote. On Monday, Ms. Wiles said the money was being delayed.

Polls: Race is even in N.C., while Clinton up in Florida

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a virtual tie in North Carolina, according to a poll released Tuesday by Elon University.

Trump led Clinton by 1-point (44%-43%) in the new poll, but that number is well within the margin of error. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 6% support.

Hillary Clinton continues to hold a small lead in FiveThirtyEight’s forecasting models. She has about a 59 percent chance of winning the election according to both our polls-only and polls-plus forecasts. The most notable new polls released since Friday came in Pennsylvania and Florida, both crucial swing states. Clinton led by 8 percentage points in a Muhlenberg College poll from Pennsylvania and by 1 percentage point in a Siena College poll out of Florida.