Bernie Sanders has 1 million donors

[Uncle Joe]

Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Thursday it has now received contributions from over 1 million individual donors.


"With 1 million contributors, this is the only Democratic campaign that has more supporters than Donald Trump," said campaign manager Faiz Shakir. "Our strength is in numbers, and that is why Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who is able to say his campaign will rely only on grassroots funding in both the primary and against Donald Trump."

Sanders reached the milestone seven months after he announced his candidacy in February, faster than any candidate ever.

(snip)

According to the campaign, Sanders "continues to be the only Democratic candidate with more individual contributions than Donald Trump."

(snip)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-has-one-million-donors/

[bluewater]

1. Surely someone has a way to say a MILLION donors means nothing! Right?

Thanks for the post, Uncle Joe.

Good luck to you and your candidate.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Thank you bluewater.

Good luck to you and yours as well.

[Hortensis]

67. Not nothing. But, 200,000,000 registered voters alone.

[ritapria]

3. The Elizabeth Warren supporters on DU are classy people

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. They sure are!! Can't wait until we join forces!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[CentralMass]

57. Yes they are.

[HerbChestnut]

4. Thanks for the post, Uncle Joe.

[BlueMississippi]

5. That list downloaded from DNC's servers was useful afterall. nt

[HerbChestnut]

6. Just when you thought people couldn't possibly spin one of our candidates...

...getting massive grassroots support. Boy this forum can be negative sometimes.

[bluewater]

10. It's a swing and a miss... it's hard to try and spin one million unique individual donors as bad.

But some people are trying too. I guess that's human nature.

sour grapes perhaps?

[ehrnst]

27. Almost as hard as trying to spin losing voters to another candidate as good.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287286633

[bluewater]

41. This is a happy occassion!

let's all celebrate The Sanders Campaign reaching ONE MILLION unique individual donors!



I am glad when I see all the candidates for the Democratic 2020 Presidential nomination raising money and attracting supporters, it means tRump's days are numbered.

I must admit, I am a bit jealous. But Elizabeth Warren will soon reach a million individual donors too, that's a sure bet!

[ehrnst]

61. Don't WORRY, be HAPPY!

[ehrnst]

24. +1000. (nt)

[MasonDreams]

52. Thanks for the reminder.

Everybody knows why Hillary lost right?

I have a new one. Why is the solid Democratic South now the solid Republican South?

President Jimmy Carter lost bad, do you know why?

[BlueMississippi]

60. Jimmy Carter didn't download the list from DNC nt

[Aaron Pereira]

7. That is impressive.

If he doesn't win the nomination the eventual candidate would do will well to give Sanders and his supporters a seat at the table.

[sheshe2]

16. They did last time. They had a seat at the table,

One was Cornell West. He finished with the Democratic platform and then walked away to vote for Stein.

Go figure.

[NurseJackie]

68. Why? What good purpose would that serve? Why would this time be different from the last?

[sheshe2]

8. Sorry.

I have little time to read the articles, I do mom care 24/7. Does that list include donors contributing multiple times?

TIA.

[bluewater]

9. It's one million unique individual donors.

Must say, that IS impressive, hmm?



I am jealous. I bet every candidate wishes they had ONE MILLION unique individual donors.

Can't we at least acknowledge when another campaign has done well and has reached an outstanding milestone?

[sheshe2]

13. I asked a question that I did not know the answer to.

Can't we at least acknowledge when another campaign has done well and reached an outstanding milestone?

I never acknowledged or disavowed anything.

SMDH

[bluewater]

20. No problem. It's easy to miss the first line of an OP sometimes

Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Thursday it has now received contributions from over 1 million individual donors.

I know because my eyes play tricks on me all the time reading screen text.

Have a nice evening.

[sheshe2]

51. You know what?

I do not need your snark.

bluewater
20. No problem. It's easy to miss the first line of an OP sometimes

Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Thursday it has now received contributions from over 1 million individual donors.


I know because my eyes play tricks on me all the time reading screen text.

Have a nice evening.

You try homecare 24/7 for a 93 year old, which I mentioned a few posts above. TWO YEARS and only two of us doing it. No sleep, baby monitor and cell next to my pillow.

Doctors visits...this is how the day goes. Get her up and dress her, give her breakfast. Guide her to the bathroom. Rest in her rocker. Put her down for a nap. Wake her, walk her to the kitchen to rest dragging a 50 foot oxygen cord. Get her out the door down 4 steps and a sit down as she needs to rest. Finally two of us get her to the car...then run back in the house to get the portable 50 lb oxygen tank to hook her up in the car. Run back and get the wheel chair and toss that heavy sucker in the car. Then same into the office, out of the office and then the reverse getting her back in the house. So yes, I am exhausted and missed that first damn line. I am 66 years old and I don't know if I am coming or going anymore. You try it sometime

[bluewater]

53. I actually do misread things all the time myself, no snark intended.

I also seem to go dyslexic when typing numbers and dates here on DU.

That said, please let me apologize for my posting style and I am sorry that I misinterpreted your post and replied in an overly glib manner. The fault is entirely mine.

I was not cognizant of your personal situation before now, if I was I would never have been so flippant. Caring for an aging or dying parent is an enormous job.

The best to you and yours.

[sheshe2]

55. Thanks.

Though I did mention it in the post you responded to.

sheshe2 (58,251 posts)
8. Sorry.

I have little time to read the articles, I do mom care 24/7. Does that list include donors contributing multiple times?

TIA.

[bluewater]

56. You did.

best regards.

[sheshe2]

58. thanks.

[Joe941]

66. An impressive milestone that demonstrates the broad grassroots movement!

[myohmy2]

11. a big +1

...we're on our way...

"With 1 million contributors, this is the only Democratic campaign that has more supporters than Donald Trump,"

https://berniesanders.com/issues/

...

[Uncle Joe]

21. I thought that line was most telling as well myohmy.

"With 1 million contributors, this is the only Democratic campaign that has more supporters than Donald Trump,"

[OilemFirchen]

12. As of June 30...

"... nearly 1.7 million, or more than 80%, of the donors who fueled his earlier run have stayed on the sidelines..."

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-20/bernie-sanders-donors-split-sprawling-democratic-2020-primary

[BlueMississippi]

14. Now you've done it!

They only wanted positive posts here.

[bluewater]

18. Thanks for making it obvious.

[BlueMississippi]

47. Some people's sarcasm monitor is off nt

[bluewater]

50. indeed.

[ritapria]

15. Bernie has added an addiitional 255k donors since June 30

[Uncle Joe]

17. That's at a nice clip ritapria.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. This is qualifying.

[floppyboo]

22. And more donors than Biden/Warren combined in states that went red in '16!

That's individual donors, not donations. That's Huge!

[George II]

23. Through June 30 (2Q19) he listed only 28,000 donors. Who are all of these other?

[bluewater]

25. Candidates had to have at least 60,000 individual donors to qualify for the June debate.

So, your 28,000 number would seem low for any candidate. Where are you getting that number from? I thought candidates had to have 60,000 individual donors to qualify for the first debate back in June? The September debate required 130,000 unique donors. So the DNC must have kept track, right?



here's an interesting NY Times article on where individuals donors are for all candidates

Detailed Maps of the Donors Powering the 2020 Democratic Campaigns
By Josh Katz, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Rachel Shorey and Thomas Kaplan Aug. 2, 2019

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a huge lead over other Democratic presidential candidates in the number of individual donors they have each accumulated so far.

This is the first time since the primary race began in earnest that we can estimate how many individual donors each candidate has attracted — a key indicator of how much they are catching on with voters.
Mr. Sanders is relying heavily on small donors to power his campaign, and he entered the 2020 race with a huge network of online donors who supported his 2016 presidential bid. The map above shows the breadth of Mr. Sanders’s roster of donors across the United States.

A map that includes the rest of the Democratic field without Mr. Sanders offers a picture of where the other major candidates are picking up donors. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the other leading progressive in the race, is outpacing the rest of the field across much of the country — a sign that her strategy of relying on grass-roots donors, and refraining from holding high-dollar fund-raisers, is working.
Candidates with the most individual donors when Sanders is excluded
Where Bernie Sanders is leading, the runner-up is shown. Darker shades on the map indicate a greater share of estimated donors.

1. Sanders
746,000

2. Warren
421,000

3. Buttigieg
390,000

4. Harris
277,000

5. Biden
256,000

6. O’Rourke
188,000

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.html

[George II]

28. I've seen that before. That's a map of "estimated" donors based on a number of assumptions....

...and extrapolations made by the NY Times. Those are not documented numbers as reported to the FEC.

From the campaign's FEC financial filings through June 30, there were only 28,066 unique donors identified who made a total of 277,693 donations. These donors made an average of 9.9 donations each for an average aggregate of $299.

The raw data can be found here:

https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00696948/?cycle=2020

[Agschmid]

30. June was a long time ago, at least in primary terms.

[bluewater]

31. 60,000 unique donors needed for first debate in June, 130,000 needed for the September Debate

Those were individual donor requirements. So the DNC must have been keeping track, right?

28,000 individual donors would not have been enough to qualify for the June debate.

Again, you seem to be getting a wrong number, 28,000 is just way off according to the DNC's debate requirements.

I realize you posted while I was editing, so here is that point again.

[George II]

34. I wonder why he hasn't reported all of those donors to the FEC.

[bluewater]

39. Apparently they all have reported to the DNC though for the debates.

The candidates HAD to report verifiable numbers to the DNC to qualify for the debates, right?

You are not accusing the DNC of flim flamming us, I hope.

[George II]

42. Not at all, but apparently you're accusing me of accusing the DNC of flim flamming us.

[bluewater]

49. Not at all. Just wondering why you kept repeating 28,000 when the DNC certified much more than that.

Everyone in the first debate in June had to have 60,000 unique individual donors and 130,000 unique individual donors for the debate we just had in September.

Surely we ALL trust that the DNC verified those numbers, right?

I kept asking that question because you just kept repeating that only 28,000 were reported to the FEC while never commenting on the fact that the DNC certified 2 times and then 4 times that number.

Did you ever acknowledge that the DNC's numbers were correct as a minimum and I missed that somehow? I honestly don't think I did.

[HerbChestnut]

33. Do you really think

He only has 28,000 donors? Come on, George.

[bluewater]

35. What's that old saying?

“Mistaken information can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Mark Twain paraphrased. He was a bit more harsh.

[George II]

36. That's all he's reported to the FEC, Herb. He has a huge amount designated as "unitemized"....

...which means the FEC has no idea how many comprise that number or how much each may have contributed.

[bluewater]

38. Are you saying the DNC didn't have a way to check the number of unique donors for the debates?

That would be shocking, no?

Surely the DNC verified the number of unique donors that candidates needed to meet the debate requirements.

[George II]

43. I don't know what he gave to the DNC, but it's a matter of public record what he gave to the FEC.

https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00696948/?cycle=2020

[bluewater]

44. I am sure it is. As I am sure everyone had 60,000 unique donors for the June debate, minimum.

I trust the DNC, don't you?

And the DNC required 130,000 unique donors for the debate we just had in September.

So, again

[George II]

45. Why do you keep questioning my trust in the DNC? Twice now that you've made a comment like that.

[bluewater]

48. Just asking if you believe the DNC when they certified 60,000 unique donors for the June debate.

You never gave a direct answer to that, you just kept mentioning only 28,000 was reported to the FEC as of June 30th.



So you do acknowledge that everyone in the June debate had at least 60,000 unique donors.

Good. Thanks for making that clear.

[NurseJackie]

26. Meh.

[bluewater]

37. I'll call your Meh and raise you two WOAH's.

I am glad when I see all the candidates for the Democratic 2020 Presidential nomination raising money and attracting supporters, it means tRump's days are numbered.

[George II]

46. .

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. Excellent news!! Thanks, as always, for the info Uncle Joe...

Just another example of why Bernie's popularity is unequaled.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

[StrictlyRockers]

40. Go Bernie!

Bernie could be our next president!

[Politicub]

54. Very impressive! Sanders clearly has a strong base of support.

Enthusiasm is an important factor when it comes to electability.

[ecstatic]

59. One million American donors?

[NurseJackie]

69. ...

[Nanjeanne]

62. Historic. Great news.

[Butterflylady]

63. And..............

That's a big deal ?

[brooklynite]

64. Now, if only he could figure out a way to get voters...

[NurseJackie]

70. ...

That's the tricky part, isn't it?

[scheming daemons]

65. Too bad he has a hard ceiling of below 25% of actual Democratic *VOTERS*