Bernie Sanders Raised $25 Million in January, More Than Any Rival in Any Quarter

[Donkees]

The Vermont senator’s announcement came as the Biden, Buttigieg and Warren campaigns are showing signs of financial strain.

By Shane Goldmacher
Feb. 6, 2020, 6:00 a.m. ET

Excerpt:

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $25 million in January, his campaign said on Thursday, a staggering sum that gives him an enviable financial advantage at an crucial moment in the Democratic primary race. He plans to use the windfall to immediately buy $5.5 million in television and digital ads across 10 states, at a time when some of his rivals are shifting or cutting their existing ad reservations.

The $25 million haul is more money than any other candidate raised in any full quarter during 2019, including several presidential hopefuls who hold the big-dollar fund-raisers that Mr. Sanders forgoes. The announcement is the latest sign of an epochal change in money in politics, with candidates now able to finance a top-tier national campaign fueled by masses of donors giving a steady stream of small amounts.

Mr. Sanders can now plan past the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday with greater financial confidence, an important development given the possibility of an extended Democratic primary with multiple candidates including Michael R. Bloomberg, a self-financing billionaire whose full influence will not be felt until March because he is skipping the first four contests.

Mr. Sanders’s show of financial might came as the Democratic candidates are still awaiting final results from Monday’s Iowa caucuses, a delay that has had a dampening effect on any one contender developing momentum heading into New Hampshire. Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Sanders are now all but tied in the Iowa delegate race, with 97 percent of precincts reporting, but the lack of an official winner makes it easier for Mr. Sanders to seize the spotlight with his good fund-raising news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/politics/bernie-sanders-donations.html

[ZZenith]

1. How can that be even remotely possible?

Nobody likes him.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. I know really... hahaha!! As I've been sayin, I call it the Baseless Bernie Bashing Backlash...

People have a sense of fundamental fairness and know when someone is being unfairly treated, as is the case with Bernie, time and time again. And they know Bernie's LONG HISTORY of CONSISTENTLY looking out for the working class and poor folks his ENTIRE political career. So they respond to someone like Bernie, who's had THEIR backs forever and a day and say, thanks for your service kind sir... now we got YOUR back!!

It's clear as day what's going on, yet some are STILL in denial over this obvious reality, while others see it and are understandably angry. I've been there myself politically, so I get it... but ultimately, after struggling with the reality of that political situation, I came to accept it.

Now, it's BERNIE's turn to have his time in the sun... and those behind this "people's movement," feeding Bernie's surge in the polls, are NOT going to accept a few measly fuckin' scraps tossed to them by RepukelicKKKons, who are the REAL Socialists... CORPORATE Socialists!! The elites on Wall Street have seen their wealth QUADRUPLE in recent years... and the common folk have to get on their knees and fucking BEG to make 15 bucks an hour?!?! FUCK THAT!!!!

So, I call on all fair-minded people who are tired of getting a raw deal, or seeing others getting one, to join Bernie... it's not about HIM, it's about US!! Bernie gets that; we need to get him... to the convention, as the Democratic nominee for President, and then onward into the White House that is currently being occupied by the Orange Menace!! Bernie has the BEST chance of confronting the Shitstain-in-Chief for being the corporatist asshole that he is and contrasting his bold progressive agenda that favors economic equality, universal healthcare availability, and racial justice - for ALL!! - over that prick's policy of handouts to the top 1% while he screws the rest of us in every way possible!!

I am EXTREMELY confident that President Sanders will represent our Party proudly... but, more importantly, he'll represent We The People with equal pride and look out for those of us on MAIN STREET, not the greedy bastards on WALL STREET. That's just another reason Bernie's setting fundraising records and surgin like a BEAST in the polls!!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Yet, Bernie either squeaked by very closely in Iowa or came in second.

Money does not equal votes.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Wait until Super Tuesday.

BTW, the only decision that I made is that I'm not voting for Bernie on Super Tuesday!

I still haven't seen a campaign sign or bumper sticker for Bernie. Nobody has knocked on my door asking me to vote for Bernie either. The only time within the past two years that a campaign volunteer has knocked on my door was in 2018 when I spoke with a Beto campaign worker for 15 minutes when he ran for Senate.

I guess that nobody around where I live has the bern.

[TexasTowelie]

10. Iowa is one of 57 contests for the nomination.

Considering that Iowa was supposed to be a state where Bernie was going to win overwhelmingly, his performance was lackluster.

I'm LMAO that Bernie couldn't break 30% in a state with so little diversity.

[berksdem]

29. this!

[Uncle Joe]

42. Whoever said Bernie would win overwhelmingly in Iowa? There were 20+ candidates

it was a Baskin Robbins of political races.

Iowa was almost home territory for two candidates Buttigieg and Klobuchar; from neighboring states.

[TexasTowelie]

11. Bookmarking.

I can't wait until Super Tuesday to vote for anybody but Bernie!

[TexasTowelie]

13. Please tell me how many elections that Bernie has won in the South.

[TexasTowelie]

15. Look who is changing the subject now.

Bernie can't come away with a convincing win in Iowa so I understand why you want to play games. I'm patient so it doesn't bother me to wait a few weeks to see Bernie lose.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

38. You don't cite a time so assuming the 2016 Primary race

Oklahoma would be the only one, but only if you consider Oklahoma a southern state.

States/Territories won by Senator Sanders during 2016 Primary: Alaska, Colorado, Democrats Abroad, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming

Next up 2020 is New Hampshire.

[TexasTowelie]

41. I don't lump in Oklahoma as a southern state.

It was a territory when the Civil War was fought and the racial demographics show that it is about 65% white.

Super Tuesday will provide a much better indication as to who is ahead in this race.

[LanternWaste]

27. IA was Bernie's to walk away with a commanding victotry. He dropped the ball.

No surge. No victory lap. The failure is Bernie's.

No one expected Biden to walk away with the blue ribbon. It''s disingenuous (at best) to pretend otherwise.

Rationalize it as you need to, but the Bernie suRGe!!! was (and is) illustrated to be little more than just another bumper sticker.

[lunasun]

30. Yes same for Pete . All the fundraising and squeaked by very closely in Iowa or came in second

“Money does not equal votes “

Wonder if Bloomberg thinks the same ? He is trying to turn that around I guess

[TexasTowelie]

37. I don't have a clue what Bloomberg thinks,

but at least his campaign isn't crowing about how much money he has collected on a regular basis as a guise of widespread support.

[SamKnause]

5. Awesome !!!

[madibella]

6. Lots of Republican/Russian money would be my guess.

I don't doubt they he has a strong and enthusiastic base who are donating and fully support their candidate, but the criminal and his cabal were very vocal in their "support" of Sanders a few weeks back and voila, he's now the co front runner.

The criminal enterprise is running interference and it's scary.

[madibella]

20. Thanks!

[Pachamama]

22. I am certain of it - along with other efforts to disruot

Look at the efforts made by Trump supporters to flood the phone lines for Iowa Caucus

[CentralMass]

23. I'm one of his millions of small donors dating back to 2016.

I made two small dontations last month.

Then there is Joe Biden who sat in front of a bunch of wealthy donors at a ritsy hotel in New York last June and promised "If I'm elected nothing will fundamentally change."

[madibella]

28. I've given to Biden when I can, which is only $10 or $15 here and there.

I don't doubt that you and many other small donors have given to Bernie but I would much rather have money coming in from the ritzy hotel crowd than the Russians and the Republicans.

And the quote you provided, well, I don't know the context of it, but I do know that Bernie's surrogates outright lie about other candidate's positions so there's that.

[CentralMass]

32. Your insuation on top of being alert worthg flies in the face of reality.

Sanders is popular. His message and his ideas resonate with millions of Americans. 13.5 million voted for him in 2016 and he is more well known in 2020.
Despite the crowded field he is surging in the polls nationally and leading in many.

The Bernie hatred is not going to change any minds.

[madibella]

33. I'm sorry, I honestly don't understand what alert worthy means? Or what I'm insinuating.

Are you saying you're going to report me? I guess go ahead if you would like and my time here may be short lived. I'm simply stating my opinion and if I have to, can back up my claim that Sanders has surrogates who lie. Sanders even apologized to Biden in one instance.

As I said, Sanders is popular, no doubt in my mind. He's not my choice for a few reasons, a major one is his surrogates. They lie a lot and are extremely divisive. If you feel differently, that's your choice.

And I don't doubt that Sanders is getting donations from entities who don't want Biden to win. I don't know why this is such a radical or alert worthy concept.

[CentralMass]

34. You are insinuating that Sanders big haul last month is russian or republican money.

Step back and take a look at the posts attacking candidates at this site. I might be wrong but I find that attacks on Sanders dominate. Like it or not he maybe the leading candidate in the primary. The TOS and norms here prohibit and frown on attacking candidates and other public democratic figures. How long to you think a post like that would have stayed up against Hillary in 2016 or anyone other then Bernie.

I only raised the comment at the ritsy New York fundraiser as a counter to your comment on Sanders and russian money I'm not on this board posting negative comments about Joe Biden or any other candidate. Other then being a bad hobby it serves no productive purpose. It is just a hate fest.

[madibella]

35. Thanks for your reply. I DO think that some of Bernie's money is

from Russians and Republicans. And I do think that a tremendous amount is from his supporters. He's very popular, no doubt about that. I have no way of knowing percentages, but he's extremely popular.
We just got through an impeachment and 3+ years of Russian and outside interference in the election first against Hillary then Biden. One easy way to interfere is through money that's all I'm saying.
I honestly don't know if Bernie hate dominates here or not, but he's the/a front runner now so I would imagine the attacks will ramp up.
I'm not posting anything negative about Bernie or anyone else either, but I do have opinions on viability etc.
I don't think Bernie is doing anything nefarious here, I think those outside donors are.

[R B Garr]

25. Yes, it's very obvious. nt

[NCLefty]

9. I'm cool with Bernie. I was going to give him a primary vote in 2016 in TX.

But I failed to show up #badday #greatshame and Hillary won here (by double) anyway. :p

Of course, I voted for HRC in the general. I even sent her $100 that I didn't think she needed...

[mysteryowl]

16. There is no disputing how impressive his money raising is.

Monetary donations do represent votes and enthusiasm.

[ripcord]

21. I think you might be surprised

Bernie has really picked up a lot of support on California college campuses since Harris left the race, I don't think people understand how different super Tuesday will be with California's 495 delegates thrown into the mix. Bernie seems to be benefitting from our push to register college students.

[octoberlib]

18. I wonder how many of them were Republicans?

[R B Garr]

24. Bingo. It's pretty obvious.

[brutus smith]

19. Go big or go home.

We went big in 2008 and got Obama for 8 years. We didn't go big in 2016 and got trump.

[rzemanfl]

26. I think I will wash socks early today. BBL. n/t

[TexasTowelie]

43. I wish that I had some money to place on the betting markets,

but it seems like I have to wash socks nearly every day so I have to load some more money on the card that I use in the laundry room at my apartment complex.

[rzemanfl]

44. I wash mine by hand. n/t

[delisen]

36. Nothing to do with"going big" In 2008 we did not have the Russian involvement

In 2016 we had the Russian involvement but much of that was kept from us. We were making voting decisions in the dark.

In 2008 we had a robust well-funded Democratic Party. By 2016 we had lost over 1000 seats throughout the country and the party was impoverished. These are not the only significant differences between 2008 and 2016.

Our losses in 2010 alone gave Republicans the advantage in re-apportionment and they gerrymandered districts-putting us in an even weaker position.

In 2013 the Supreme Court invalidated a significant part of the Voting Rights Act. In January 2010 the Supreme Court released the Citizens United ruling.

In 2008 much press was written and many Democratic voters spoke of us a now a post-racial society-but this was self-deception. The Republican Party spent the the next eight years blocking legislation and suppressing likely Democratic votes.

We have wasted a significant amount of time since election 2016. While many have tried to downplay the Russian involvement, have tried to "normalize" Trump, and tried to falsely frame 2016 as us having a "bad" candidate, the true "bad candidate" was able to consolidate his and Putin's hold on our nation.

In Election 2020 we are likely to be subject to even greater lying, cheating, and stealing. In fact we have been warned that this is the case. We have made some reforms, which will be helpful-but we remain at a great disadvantage.

The complexity of the challenges facing us cause people in many countries to seek a "strongman" leader and a totalitarian government.

2008 may as well have been 40 years ago. The world and our part of it is significantly changed.

[brutus smith]

40. All the more reason to go big or go home! Be bold!

Time to stop trying to drag the repubs into the 21st century.

[delisen]

45. Sorry, can't follow your reasoning.Go big or go home is a slogan.Doesn't seem bold at all.

[octoberlib]

31. Sanders violated soft money bans . That's why

he took in more than anyone else.

[Uncle Joe]

39. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.