In a Twitter post on Wednesday, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said that her campaign and a joint fund-raising operation with the Democratic National Committee had $102 million on hand, not including cash held directly by the party. At the end of May, Mr. Trump reported barely more than $1.3 million in cash, alarming Republicans, who feared a financial rout by Mrs. Clinton.  Story highlights The Trump campaign says it raised $80 million in July 
 
 But the campaign struggled to make a significant dent in tapping bigger donors 
 
 (CNN) Donald Trump's campaign posted $80 million in fundraising last month in conjunction with the Republican Party, powered by a small-dollar program that is allowing him to slowly close the gap with Hillary Clinton. The Trump campaign has been boasting of how many small donations it has been receiving, saying in a Wednesday statement that those donations were up by 69 percent in July. And it is the Republican National Committee that is providing much of the technical expertise that has allowed Mr. Trump to quickly increase his low-dollar fund-raising, some Republican officials said.
– After a week full of headlines likely to have Donald Trump's advisers tearing their hair out, there's a bright spot for his campaign: He's narrowing the fundraising gap with Hillary Clinton, helped by a Bernie Sanders-style flood of small donations, NPR reports. The Trump campaign says it and joint fundraising committees raised $82 million in July—including $2 million from Trump himself—compared to around $90 million for Clinton, who ended the month with $58 million on hand, compared to $37 million for Trump, whose campaign was $40 million behind Clinton at the beginning of June, with just $1.3 million on hand. The Trump campaign says the bulk of the cash has come from small donations, most of them made online, reports the New York Times, which notes that this is a big change for a campaign that was "largely funded by hat and T-shirt sales and by Mr. Trump's wallet" until recently. "We are extremely proud of our 69% growth in small-dollar donations, which shows the broad-based support of over 1 million donors across America," says Steven Mnuchin, Trump's finance chairman, per CNN. Small donors may be Trump's only chance of closing the fundraising gap: Major GOP donors and fundraisers have been steering clear of his campaign, including Meg Whitman, who says she will raise funds for Clinton instead.