Bernie Sanders' immense fundraising haul reflects a resilient movement

[workinclasszero]

By EVAN HALPER and JANET HOOK APR 02, 2019
WASHINGTON

Bernie Sanders put to rest any suggestion that the movement behind him has faded since his first run for president as his campaign team announced Tuesday that he had raised an immense amount of cash from a huge number of donors.

Sanders’ campaign collected $18.2 million from 525,000 donors – most of them under age 39 – in the first quarter of 2019, campaign officials said. The intimidating show of financial force will likely position Sanders to compete aggressively in every key state, giving him more resources than most of his rivals.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sanders-money-20190402-story.html

[katmondoo]

1. If he wins will he appoint Democrats to his Cabinet or Independents only?

He doesn't seem to want to be a Democrat only if he can run for President

[LongtimeAZDem]

2. That's a lot of kids with daddy issues.

[msongs]

3. so whats new with his resilient movement to release his taxes? nt

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread workinclasszero.

[workinclasszero]

7. No problem

Bernie is off to a great start! 👍

[Demsrule86]

5. Money doesn't equal votes as we saw before.

[Thekaspervote]

28. +1000

[Power 2 the People]

6. What a great start!

[workinclasszero]

8. Yes indeed

No bundled money either. Many small donations indicate a large base of regular voters!

Looks good for Bernie.

[aidbo]

10. and 20% new donors according to daily beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-2020-fundraising-haul-dollar182-million-raised-in-first-quarter

That total came from 525,000 contributors (20 percent of whom were new contributors to the campaign) with the average contribution being $20. The campaign said that the majority of donors were under the age of 39 and that they accumulated 900,000 donations.

[George II]

12. How do we know that? He collected more than $100 million last campaign from people....

....we know absolutely nothing about, their contributions were "un-itemized". We don't know if they're new or not.

[workinclasszero]

22. Well I'm a new one

I doubt if I'm the only one.

[vsrazdem]

9. Great start.

[Gothmog]

11. Really?

Most people were told to expect that sanders would raise more than $20 million given that he had raised over $10 million in his first week https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/trump-turns-2020-election-referendum-health-care-n989926

Bernie Sanders raised $5.9 million in his first 24 hours, and appears to be on pace to raise more than $20 million for the quarter after announcing on February 19.

sanders also felled short of the 1 million contributions he promised.

[George II]

13. Maybe the well is running dry?

[Gothmog]

14. sanders had $10 million after first week

That means over the next 4+ weeks, sanders only got $8 million

[workinclasszero]

23. Only?

Bernie only got more than anyone else and from small real people donations too.

I

[CentralMass]

27. Now thats funny..

[Gothmog]

15. On the bright side, sanders failure to meet his goal makes Harris' numbers look even better

Link to tweet

[ecstatic]

16. For me it's kind of sinister

Russia really put a lot of effort into him last cycle. Are they doing the same this cycle? Is there a way to verify the identity of these small donors?

[marylandblue]

17. Flooding him with small dollar donations is inefficient and unnecessary.

It makes more sense to use dark money and front groups like they did before.

[workinclasszero]

24. It's sad to see average Americans participating

by right in our political system be slandered and called sinister.

On a democratic party board of all places as well.

That's just sad and a terrible commentary on American democracy in 2019.

[Thekaspervote]

29. Hummm?? Curious minds want to know

[Lazy Daisy]

18. Great news

His popularity just keeps growing!

[UniteFightBack]

19. I think it's great that there are ENOUGH Dem's to go around and who are also giving money and

ya know what every 'major' candidate is doing pretty damn well.

[David__77]

20. Great! It can be a great primary season!

I expect he will get a lot of media coverage throughout 2019 and beyond.

[brooklynite]

21. If only fundraising translated to votes...

[George II]

25. We need to see the actual FEC filing to know exactly how much he collected and has....

He had $5,455,167.90 remaining in his 2016 presidential campaign treasury.

He had $9,094,921.30 remaining in his 2018 senate campaign treasury.

That's a total of $14,550,089.20. We need to see the actual FEC report to see how much, if any, was applied to the 2020 campaign treasury.

[RandySF]

26. So Kamala's $12 million is a nothing burger?

[Kentonio]

30. Why would you see congratulating one candidate for an admirable achievement..

..as an attack on another candidate? Kamala also did extremely well, especially considering she didn't have the advantage of having run in 2016 to build upon.

Can we just be happy for all our candidates when they do well please?