Sanders Raises $26M in April and Breaks $200M Raised for Campaign

[Playinghardball]

ASHINGTON – Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign on Sunday announced that supporters made almost 1 million donations in April totaling $25.8 million, far surpassing the campaign’s average monthly total of $17 million.

Since the Sanders campaign was launched one year ago, his supporters have revolutionized campaign fundraising and demonstrated that he can wage a competitive campaign for president without relying on Wall Street and other special interests. More than 7.4 million contributions have poured in from more than 2.4 million donors totaling $210 million.

A key to Sanders’ fundraising success has been that his grassroots supporters consistently have contributed more to his campaign than Hillary Clinton’s big-dollar donors. Sanders’ April donations far exceeded Hillary for America’s $21 million in March.

“What our campaign is doing is bringing millions of Americans into the political process,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. “Sanders is the candidate with the most energy and excitement. He is the candidate with the best chance of winning in November. He is the candidate who is in the best position to bring a new generation of voters into the democratic process and restore the faith of working-class voters that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.”

In April, the average contribution was slightly less than $26. Only 3 percent of the total came from donors who have given the maximum $2,700 an individual may donate to a candidate. About 48 percent Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign committee money comes from maxed-out donors.

A typical Sanders donor is 27 years old. Forty-one percent of people giving to his campaign are between the ages of 18 and 39, an unprecedented level of support from younger Americans. ‘Teacher’ is the most common profession followed by ‘student’ and ‘engineer.’

Sanders continued fundraising success comes as the presidential nomination contest with Clinton enters the final phase with 14 states, territories and the District of Columbia still to hold primaries or a caucuses. Sanders and Clinton are neck and neck in national polls with Sanders edging ahead in some surveys. He consistently is a much stronger general election candidate polling much better than Clinton in head-to-head matchups with Donald Trump or other Republican White House hopefuls.

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-raises-26m-april-breaks-200m-raised-campaign/

[Duckhunter935]

1. Awesome, did my part

[Agschmid]

2. What did he raise in March?

[Loudestlib]

23. Like April

More than Hillary did in March.

[Agschmid]

25. Yes I'm aware of that.

But just wondering what he raised in March.

I'll admit I'm too lazy to google it.

[SidDithers]

3. ...

Sid

[NurseJackie]

17. That picture!! Funny AND frightening at the same time!

[aikoaiko]

26. You didn't know that was Sid, did you ?

[Loudestlib]

21. Clinton's campaign did not immediately report its fundraising totals in April.

I can't wait to find out how much the bankers gave her.

[RazBerryBeret]

4. THIS is an amazing

and historical process. I'm glad to be a part of it.

[Trust Buster]

5. Sanders has raised more money than Hillary during the primary season though they complain

about Hillary's haul. They have convinced themselves that individuals sending him money in return for trillions in new benefits is somehow more NOBLE than the wealthy doing the same. In the end, it's the exact same thing. You just want the big money to flow your way. Don't kid yourselves, that's the ONLY difference.

[ljm2002]

8. I am very happy...

...to have a candidate who is beholden to the masses rather than to the elites.

[Trust Buster]

9. His masses have essentially behaved in the same way as big donors.

They have cut and sent checks to Sanders with the belief that, by doing so, the trillions in new spending that Sanders has promised will come back to benefit them in an exponentially larger way than their initial investment(contribution). It's about the money.

[ljm2002]

12. It's about the money in a way, yes...

...it's about the money that has flowed upwards for the last 40+ years, and the corresponding decline in the American middle class.

It's about the money that has been spent on the vast MIC, while social programs, and education, and infrastructure have been gutted.

It's about the fact that how you spend your money says a lot about your values.

It's about the fact that we as a country spend far more on health insurance / health care than any other industrialized nation, while we get less for our dollars and our outcomes are statistically worse.

So sure, it's about the money. Again: I am very, very happy to have a candidate who is beholden to the majority of us proles, rather than to the elites who continue to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else, and of the planet itself.

[Kip Humphrey]

13. Yep, that's we the people instead of we the oligarchs. Thanks for highlighting the difference!

[rhett o rick]

10. Funny difference is that the Clintons have pocketed $150 million for their own personal

wealth plus their Foundation Retirement Plan.

They owe their fortune to the billionaires and Wall Street. Sanders received his campaign funds from average people that are hoping the little they give can offset the control of our government by the Wealthy.

I understand how the Republicons worship wealth but don't understand Democrats supporting the greedy.

[NurseJackie]

20. Awww. (Still on that?)

[Kip Humphrey]

14. How much did Hillary raise in April (hard money donations to her campaign, not to her superPACs)?

[timmymoff]

16. Maybe because we know who is buying her?

Lobbyists, super pacs, all the dirty money is heading toward camp weathervane, but never you mind, she is not able to be corrupted, only all the other candidates who accept money from these people can be corrupted. A fantasy land in Hillaryville.

[jack_krass]

22. Public funding is the way to go..

Until then, its million times better to have politicians beholden to individuals than corporations and other entities.

Corporations use owned politicians to do aweful things, like pass laws to hurt their competition, make harmless things illegal so consumers have to purchase their products, articially infalte prices, and mamy other slimy, no-good things.

I mean, FFS, you are basically arguing for corporate personhood here. We are Democrats remember? Its amazing what lengths Hillarys proponents will go in attempting to prop up her and her campaign.

[imagine2015]

6. Oopppsss. Just noticed you already posted this before me.

Will delete mine.

[JonathanRackham]

7. And I helped.

On several occasions. I'm on the damn installment plan.

FU corporate America.

[Kittycat]

11. The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker

Teacher, Students & Engineers = Education & Innovation are the Keys to the future.

[kgnu_fan]

18. Creativity is the key. Limitless.

[Kittycat]

30. I think they go with the above.

They're are interconnected.

[kgnu_fan]

15. Most donors are far from maxing out.

[amborin]

19. K&R

[AzDar]

24. K & R

[Uncle Joe]

27. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

[Renew Deal]

28. That's not bad after raising $44 million in March

[msongs]

29. the people who bad mouth money in politics brag about how much money they make lol nt

[kgnu_fan]

31. The best part is that the money came from regular people, not from Wall Street.

[amborin]

32. go Bernie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liberal_at_heart]

33. K&R