The Richest And Poorest Presidential Candidates: From Hillary's Millions To Marco Rubio's Debts

[portlander23]

Forbes: The Richest And Poorest Presidential Candidates: From Hillary's Millions To Marco Rubio's Debts

Here's the breakdown according to Forbes:

Donald Trump $4.5b
Carly Fiorina $58m
Hillary Clinton $45m
Lincoln Chafee $32m
Ben Carson $26m
Jeb Bush $22m
George Pataki $13m
John Kasich $10m
Mike Huckabee $9m
Jim Gilmore $7m
Jimm Webb $6m
Bobby Jindal $5m
Ted Cruz $3.5m
Chris Christie $3m
Rand Paul $2m
Rick Santorum $2m
Lindsay Graham $1m
Bernie Sanders $0.7m
Marco Rubio $0.1m
Martin O'Malley $0

What gives with Martin O'Malley?

We pegged Democratic hopeful Martin O’Malley’s net worth at $0, the lowest of any candidate in the race. O’Malley’s latest filings show he and his wife earned more than $600,000 during the last reporting period, yet, like many Americans, he’s been crushed by student debt, as he tries to put his four children through school.

And here's the explanation of the others running on the Democratic side:

As my colleague Dan Alexander explains in his well-researched piece, Bill and Hillary left the White House essentially broke in 2001 (note that our valuations include spouses’ assets as well), only to make an incredible $230 million over the next 14 years through speaking engagements, book deals, and consulting gigs. To our own astonishment, their latest public disclosure lists a maximum of $53 million in assets (we valued them at $45 million). The Clintons make it crystal clear that despite disclosure requirements by the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Government Ethics, and even adding voluntarily revealed tax filings, the relationship between money and power remains fraught with obscurity.

The frugal Sanders ($700,000) is a case apart, accumulating very few assets in his lifetime and deriving the bulk of his net worth from his homes in Vermont and Washington, D.C.

No specific details on Mr. Webb or Mr. Chafee other than the fact it ain't bad being Lincoln Chafee it turns out.

[reformist2]

1. The Republicans will probably pick their richest candidate. I hope we don't.

[randys1]

2. Forbes has a real need to bash Hillary

[hifiguy]

3. Considering HRH was "dead broke" when she and Bubba left the WH,

she has rebounded rather nicely in the last 15 years.

Though I've seen $22 million as her net worth.

You don't amass that kind of cash in 15 years (roughly $1.5 million per year, using the lower estimate) without doing a LOT of selling out and water-carrying for the Big Money Boys.