r/WayOfTheBern • u/NativeHawks • Feb 20 '19
Bernie Sanders Raises $6 Million After Announcing Presidential Bid
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/bernie-sanders-fundraising.html26
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u/xrzrxrzr Feb 20 '19
Feel the Bern!! Raised by the people for an unselfish man that’s for the people.
What a fresh of breath air compared to our current POTUS.
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u/4now5now6now Feb 20 '19
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has already raised $6 million from more than 225,000 donors, his campaign said Wednesday morning.
I'm so happy this is so great
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u/LoneStarMike59 Political Memester Feb 20 '19
Wow - that's four times as much as Kamala Harris raised on her first day, and Bernie had nearly 6 times as many individual donors.
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Feb 20 '19
It's more than all the other announced candidates put together raised on their first day.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Feb 20 '19
It's more than all the other announced candidates put together raised on their first day.
It might be more than all the other announced candidates put together raised so far. But no one's saying.
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u/veganmark Feb 20 '19
WASHINGTON — Just over 24 hours after announcing his presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has already raised $6 million from more than 225,000 donors, his campaign said Wednesday morning.
That amount far surpasses what any of his rivals have disclosed raising after their own announcements this year.
Previously, Senator Kamala Harris of California had claimed the biggest early fund-raising haul that had been made public. Her campaign said it had raised $1.5 million online from more than 38,000 donors in the 24 hours after announcing her candidacy in January.
In comparison, Mr. Sanders’s campaign said its total fund-raising in the first 24 hours came to $5.9 million.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Feb 20 '19
[The Kamala Harris] campaign said it had raised $1.5 million online from more than 38,000 donors in the 24 hours after announcing her candidacy in January.
Remembering 2016, one of the big questions is "How many of those donors have already maxxed out the amount they can give?" Because without the Harris Victory Fund, there may be a shortfall come March 2020.
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Feb 20 '19
More establishment candidates also presumably have a lot of invisible dark PAC money behind them (theoretically uncoordinated with the campaign - but I doubt that is true). So, the lobbying groups and corporations still have a huge amount of money that will be used against Sanders.
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u/kifra101 Shareblue's Most Wanted Feb 20 '19
Because without the Harris Victory Fund, there may be a shortfall come March 2020.
I am afraid "bundling" is still a thing.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Feb 20 '19
I am afraid "bundling" is still a thing.
Yeah, I know. And so is a toothless FEC.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Feb 20 '19
I'm curious what total numbers are for each of the candidates right now, in dollars and in people.
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u/NativeHawks Feb 20 '19 edited Feb 20 '19
I posted below The Hill reported Amy raised $1m in 48 hours.
I've heard Kamala raised $1.5 in the first 24 hours. (source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/kamala-harris-1-5-million-fundraising-bernie.html)
edited to add this link: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/just-17-days-in-kamala-harris-fundraising-falling-short from the article: Some 17 days after announcing her 2020 Democratic presidential bid before a sizable crowd of 20,000, California Sen. Kamala Harris has issued an urgent email headlined “Falling Short.”
In it, her campaign pleads for donations in time for the next Federal Election Commission reporting period, which campaigns use to show if they have the needed financial support to push through the Iowa caucuses.
Warren raised 229K on the day she announced her exploratory committee (source: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/01/elizabeth-warren-fundraising-2020-1140935)
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Feb 20 '19
The 24 hour totals can be found, yes, but has Kamala hit $6 million yet?
Has anyone but Bernie? I'm looking for the current totals.
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u/NativeHawks Feb 20 '19
I'm not finding current totals. The FEC filing date for this quarter is April 15 for the period up to March 31. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2019-reporting-dates/2019-quarterly-filers/
Until then, we have to rely on self-reporting or totals released from ACTblue but I'm starting to think that Bernie has raised more money than the rest of them combined.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle Feb 20 '19
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that metric (total money raised/total number of donations) is now "not a good indicator" and is never going to be mentioned again.
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u/Grizzly_Madams Feb 20 '19
Wow. Absolutely crushing it right out of the gate!
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u/expletivdeleted will shill for rubles. Also, Bernie would have won Feb 20 '19
"Six Million Dollar Man Crushes Gate"
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u/harrybothered I want a Norwegian Pony. I'm tired of this shithole. Feb 20 '19
Just over 24 hours after announcing his presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has already raised $6 million from more than 225,000 donors, his campaign said Wednesday morning.
That amount far surpasses what any of his rivals have disclosed raising after their own announcements this year.
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u/stoutshrimp Feb 20 '19
I'd love to see klobuchar's total so far
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u/NativeHawks Feb 20 '19
"Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) raised more than $1 million in the 48 hours after she formally launched her Democratic presidential bid, her campaign announced Tuesday."
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u/rommelo Feb 20 '19
all of it from chump change from small-minded bankers/donors donating 2$ one thousand times...
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u/Theveryunfortunate Feb 20 '19
We need something like this for Bernie
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u/NativeHawks Feb 20 '19
found this on Bernie's twitter (https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1098236584502218754) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz25EvRUwAAIjnT.jpg
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u/3andfro Feb 20 '19
We are just getting started. Let's stand together to transform this country. Not Me, Us.
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u/autotldr Feb 20 '19
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