An aide to Barack Obama, Samantha Power, stepped down from the campaign on Friday amid uproar over a comment she made to a British newspaper referring to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as a “monster.” “She made the decision to resign and we accepted it,” said Robert Gibbs, Obama’s communications director. Power had been an aide to Obama in his Senate office before signing on to advise his presidential campaign on foreign policy issues 14 months ago. He gathers $55 m, mostly in donations of $100 or less.

Democratic White House contender Barack Obama demolished fund raising records with a February haul of $55 million, his campaign said. The total obliterated rival Hillary Clinton’s fund raising figure last month of $35 million, and easily topped Obama’s own previous record of more than $32 million posted in January. “No campaign has ever raised this much in a single month in the history of presidential primaries,” the Illinois Senator said in an email to supporters. He said it was more important how they did it: more than 90 per cent of the donations were of $100 or less.

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