Bernie Sanders beat Democratic rivals to raise $34.5 million in the 4th quarter

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Bernie Sanders beat Democratic rivals to raise $34.5 million in the 4th quarter

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-raises-34-5-million-in-4th-quarter/

Bernie Sanders raised $34.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, his campaign announced Thursday, racking up 1.8 million donations in the quarter ending December 31. Sanders' best fundraising month was December, when he collected 900,000 donations totaling over $18 million.


In addition to the impressive total for the quarter, the campaign announced on January 1 that it had reached 5 million campaign contributions, more than any Democratic opponent and more than President Trump's reelection campaign.





According to his campaign, the most common job held by Sanders donors in the fourth quarter was teaching, but the most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the U.S. Postal Service and Target.

The average donation was $18.53, and 99.9% of his donors have not maxed out their donations to Sanders.

According to the campaign, 40,000 new donors contributed on the last day of the year. In December alone, it raised more than $18 million from over 900,000 donations, making it the campaign's best fundraising month to date.

[ehrnst]

19. Your video from the 2016 Democratic debates is titled "Bernie destroys Hillary Clinton"

That video you posted states that "the people" love him, and the "Democratic Party hates him."

However, the people in the Democratic Party elected Hilllary Clinton as the nominee, by nearly 4 million.

For your review:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Welcome to DU.

[George II]

21. Read the OP, you're incorrect.

[ritapria]

2. WOW !

Holy Shit … Putin went into overdrive in Q 4 for Bernie , Right ? … Bernie has been fighting for the working class for 50 years and the working class are fighting for him …. Bernard will bring in countless new voters if we nominate him ...We can go down that victorious path, or try to persuade moderate Republicans - both of them - to join our cause by swerving to the center- right in the General …

[BeyondGeography]

3. That should explode some heads around here

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. .

But didn’t you hear? Someone followed someone else on Twitter. And some other anonymous person said something else. Let’s keep our priorities straight!

[LanternWaste]

35. Absolutely.

Best thing to do is ignore Bernie's poor staffing choices and pretend they don't exist.

Priorities, indeed.
(Space provided free of charge below to move goalposts. Again)

[brooklynite]

9. Bernie has never had a problem raising Primary money...

His problem this time is getting people to vote for him.

Iowa Caucus

2016 Caucus: 49%
Dec 2019: 20%

New Hampshire Primary

2016 Primary: 60%
Dec 2019: 15%

[ehrnst]

17. +1000.

[George II]

22. That' the thing - he has to get past the primary, which doesn't look promising.

[zentrum]

14. You are so right.

[DownriverDem]

15. Not really

Votes is what one needs to win. Who can win enough states to beat trump? Will your candidate win the Electoral College?

[still_one]

18. Yang raised 16.5 million. No way he will be the nominee, yet brought in sizable donations

As the polls indicate donations do not necessarily translate to winning

[betsuni]

5. Wait. Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, Target. I thought corporations were bad.

Why is it bad for other candidates to receive donations from people working for corporations but not Sanders?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Lol. Bernie is in the pocket of 'Big Barista'!

[betsuni]

8. What does that mean?

[DemocracyMouse]

16. Disgruntled workers for those companies are interested in a man who is leading the charge against...

their own exploitation. They're sick of being underpaid and in the case of Amazon, endangered by policies that treat them like expendable robots.

Warren shares Bernie's TRADITIONAL FDR-like compassion... and his balls so to speak. Their fans, combined, far exceed the alternative. I'd vote for either of them.

[betsuni]

23. "FDR compassion"

"When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933, the country had been suffering with the Great Depression for almost four years. The message from the American people to the new president was loud, clear, and universal: Do something! Anything! Standing in his way would have been an act of political suicide. President Obama, on the other hand, took office just as the economic meltdown was beginning to peak. ... The timing mattered not just because the most devastating effects of a recession caused by Bush's policies were about to be felt under Obama's watch, but because the delay in the impact of the recession gave Republicans just enough wiggle room to play politics with it." Al Franken.

FDR had large majorities in Congress and Senate. Obama only had a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate for four months and ten days. Republicans wouldn't vote for anything. Historically unprecedented obstruction. This is why FDR got things done and Democrats can't. Do people not know history? WTF. How do people not know this? YOU HAVE THE VOTES OR YOU DON'T. Nothing to do with feelings.

And a person with compassion doesn't imprison Americans of Japanese descent in internment camps.

[DemocracyMouse]

26. Agreed re. Japanese internment camps. 100% wrong on FDR's part

However, you make a good point about Obama. The Democrats have a tradition of progressive policies across the board. SO LET'S ELECT SUCH TRADITIONAL PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!

("Tradition" sounds like a Republican mantra, but we live in a topsy-turvy era... and while we're at it, Democrats are intelligent about "conserving" the planet. So they are both traditional and conservative.... So I conclude that we should stop calling ANY Democrat "pie-in-the-sky" idealists. They are all rock solid DEMOCRATS.)

[TwilightZone]

25. You cherry-picked Starbucks out of "Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, Target"?

That's rather amusing, though consistent.

[betsuni]

37. Apparently, anyone working for those companies who donates to Bernie is

a worker and their money is grassroots and okay, but anyone working for those companies who donates to other candidates are CEOs, oligarchs, the billionaire 1% and their money automatically corrupts because DONOR CLASS.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. LMFAO!! GOOD ONE!!

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

[LanternWaste]

31. "Disqualifying. Concerning. I'm worried. This isn't a good look."

Seems a most petulant and unsupported thing for me to write.

But I imagine others may rationalize it to themselves as "critical thought."

Sacred cows can do that to their flock.

[Joe941]

7. Yet we are told Sanders needs to drop out because he is doing poorly?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. YES, BERNIE'S OVERWHELMING POPULARITY MEANS HE NEEDS TO QUIT THE RACE!!

Makes sense to me... NOT!!


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

[gab13by13]

10. Oh, oh, I need my fainting couch,

didn't you learn from reading the Bernie bashing thread that a lot of his money came from bots?

I don't understand why it's ok to bash some candidates by relitigating the 2016 primary. To me that's a double violation but the thread got 100 responses.

We need to be bashing Trump not our own.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. THIS!!

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

[evertonfc]

12. Good for the Bern

I supported him in 2016 via many small donations and love Bernie. In fact, He would have beaten Trump. 2016 was his year in my opinion. I'm happy to see him doing well. Im.supporting Biden due to my educated calculation of electability but proud of Bernie and will support him if he is nominee

[zentrum]

13. Go Bernie!

[Skya Rhen]

20. I predict a lot of defection from Warren to Bernie, in the few weeks to come. She was widely

considered a threat to Biden but no longer. I'm much more comfortable having Bernie as his true challenger, tbh.

Biden2020!

[highplainsdem]

34. I think there'll be some defections, but there are a lot of Warren supporters who don't want

Sanders.

[TexasTowelie]

38. To be honest, I'm hoping that it becomes a two-way race sooner than later.

The longer multiple candidates are in the race and have committed delegates, the longer the primary will last. Biden will win quicker if Warren doesn't receive any delegates.

[George II]

24. I'll wait for the details. For example, he's claimed 1.3 million contributors....

....through the 3rd quarter, but only reported the details of approximately 80,000 to the FEC. We have no details about the remaining 1.22 million.

[LanternWaste]

30. Politicians doing what they do best... rakin' in the cash. Good for BS.

[SidDithers]

32. Between 2016 and 2020, Bernie will have spent more than half a $Billion on Presidential campaigns...

Sid

[highplainsdem]

33. And he isn't likely to be any more successful this time than he was last time.

[Uncle Joe]

36. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Hassin Bin Sober.