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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders' Small Donor Fundraising Continues To Set Records, $20 Million in ONE month.
Bernie Sanders' Small Donor Fundraising Continues To Set RecordsAlmost all of the $75 million his campaign raised in 2015 came from small donors.
by Paul Blumenthal, Money in Politics Reporter * 01/31/2016 * The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign raised $33.6 million in the last three months of 2015 and another $20 million in January alone, the campaign announced Sunday. The campaign further stated that 1.3 million people have made 3.25 million donations to Sanders' run -- a record number of donors at this stage in a presidential campaign.
The numbers weve seen since Jan. 1 put our campaign on pace to beat Secretary Clintons goal of $50 million in the first quarter of 2016, Jeff Weaver, Sanders campaign manager, said in a statement. Working Americans chipping in a few dollars each month are not only challenging but beating the greatest fundraising machine ever assembled.
The vast majority of Sanders' money has come from donors giving under $200. This contrasts with Hillary Clinton's campaign, which has raised the majority of its funds from donors giving maximum contributions of $2,700. Clintons campaign has also raised substantial sums from small donors, but Sanders ability to remain competitive with Clintons fundraising by relying solely on small contributions is unprecedented.
The Sanders camp said that the fourth quarter total will show 70 percent of the campaign's donations came from small donors. Further, the $20 million it reports to have raised in January came almost exclusively from online donations averaging $27 a piece.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fundraising_us_56ae4f7ee4b0010e80ea7bdb
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Bernie Sanders' Small Donor Fundraising Continues To Set Records, $20 Million in ONE month. (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
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HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)1. Beat me to it
femmedem
(8,201 posts)2. Phenomenal news!
I don't use the bouncies often, but this warrants
grasswire
(50,130 posts)3. thanks to whoever it was that compensated for my lousy $5 this month
Someone brought that $5 up to $27.