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Romney's June fundraising outdoes Obama's by $35 million

      Republican Mitt Romney raised 106.1 million dollars in June for his election, his team has announced. According to CBS News, the Obama campaign, in turn, announced that they and the Democratic Party raised 71 million dollars. Romney has out raised Obama's campaign for the second straight month. Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul said: "This month's fundraising is a statement from voters that they want a change of direction in Washington ." "In the months to come, these resources will be crucial to highlighting the difference between President Obama's broken promises and Mitt Romney's plan to get America on the right track again," Saul said. The Romney campaign said it and its joint RNC committee had at least 160 million dollars in the bank as on June 30. The Obama campaign did not say how much they and the joint DNC committee collected, however, at the end of May, they had 147 million dollars. Romney held at least one fundraiser on at least 18 out of the 30 days in June. In comparison, Obama attended 33 fundraisers in June, the most of any month since filing for re-election in April 2011.

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