[rad-green] Sanders Campaign Raises Record $46 Million in February

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/01/president-who-doesnt-need-beg-powerful-money-sanders-campaign-raises-record-46
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/01/president-who-doesnt-need-beg-powerful-money-sanders-campaign-raises-record-46>Common
Dreams          March 1, 2020'A President Who Doesn't Need to Beg the
Powerful for Money': Sanders Campaign Raises Record $46 Million in
February"That is revolutionary."by Jon Queally, staff writer*

[image: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic Presidential Candidate,
speaks to thousands of supporters during a rally at the Boston Common on
Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The
Washington Post via Getty Images)]

*Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic Presidential Candidate, speaks to
thousands of supporters during a rally at the Boston Common on Saturday,
February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
via Getty Images)*

Again bolstering the argument that its grassroots and movement-building
campaign is unique in the 2020 primary field, the campaign of Sen. Bernie
Sanders announced Sunday morning that it raised a record-setting $46
million in the month a February—by far the most of any Democrat so far.

"This is a campaign FOR the working people of this country powered BY the
working people of this country. While other campaigns have their super PACs
and their billionaire donors, or are billionaires themselves, we have
something they do not have—and that is people. Lots and lots of people."
—Sen. Bernie Sanders"The senator's multigenerational, multiracial working
class coalition keeps fueling his campaign for transformational change a
few bucks at a time," said Faiz Shakir, Sanders' campaign manager, in a
statement. "We're especially proud that of the more than 2 million
donations we received this month, over 1.4 million were from voters in
states that vote on Super Tuesday."

According to the campaign, it was able to raise $4.5 million on the
Saturday alone, even as it suffered its first primary defeat in South
Carolina to Joe Biden. "You can't win them all," Sanders said at a rally
Saturday night after the results came in.

In an email to supporters on Sunday, Sanders said: "This is a campaign FOR
the working people of this country powered BY the working people of this
country.  While other campaigns have their super PACs and their billionaire
donors, or are billionaires themselves, we have something they do not
have—and that is people. Lots and lots of people."

As *The Hill* reports
<https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485328-sanders-raises-staggering-46-million-in-february>
:

The haul, which came during a month in which Sanders cemented himself as
the front-runner to win the Democratic nomination, represents the best
fundraising month of Sanders' campaign. The previous high came in January,
when the campaign reeled in $25 million from more than 648,000 people. In
total, Sanders has raised more than $167 million, far outpacing the other
Democratic candidates.

Of the total  2.2 million individual donations that came in during the
month—including more than 350,000 first-time donors—over half of those came
from voters living in Super Tuesday states and the overall average
contribution was $21. Campaign strategist Tim Tagaris tweeted:

YOU are proving we can have a president who doesn’t need to beg the
powerful for money. That is revolutionary. @BernieSanders
<https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> February
$46m raised
2.2m donations
~1 donation per sec
Top employers: Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart
1.4m donations fr Super Tuesday voters
— Tim Tagaris (@ttagaris) March 1, 2020
<https://twitter.com/ttagaris/status/1234095842656690176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Revealing the working-class nature of its donor base, the campaign noted
that "teacher" was once again the most common occupation of Sanders'
February donors and that the top five most common employers of those giving
to the campaign were Walmart, the US Postal Service, Target, Amazon, and
Starbucks.

Those were facts that members of the campaign, including senior policy
advisor Heather Gautney, celebrated. Gautney tweeted
<https://twitter.com/HeatherGautney/status/1234090207760257025>: "One
lesson from this haul: The 2020 race cannot be won without teachers!"

On the size of the haul—which gives the Sanders campaign the ability to
make new outlays in Super Tuesday states and beyond—Tagaris joked
<https://twitter.com/ttagaris/status/1234088624779603968>, "Just imagine if
there were 31 days in February."

The campaign announced new television ad buys in Idaho, Michigan,
Mississippi, Missouri and Washington—all of which hold contests on March
10th, and Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, which hold contests on March
17th. The campaign is currently on the air in 12 out of the 14 states
voting on March 3rd.

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