📣 Bernie Sanders Says He Raised $34.5 Million in the Fourth Quarter

Mr. Sanders’s total is the largest three-month haul to be disclosed by any candidate so far in the Democratic primary race.

By Sydney Ember and Thomas Kaplan
Jan. 2, 2020, 6:00 a.m. ET

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DES MOINES — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised more than $34.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, his presidential campaign said Thursday, yet another display of his enduring financial might fueled by a huge base of grass-roots donors.

Mr. Sanders received more than 1.8 million donations in the quarter, with an average donation of $18.53. His fourth-quarter total is larger than any candidate has raised in a single quarter so far in the primary race.

Mr. Sanders has raised more than $96 million since he announced he was running for president last February.

His fund-raising success underscores why Mr. Sanders remains such a formidable candidate in the race: Despite having a heart attack that threatened to derail his bid in early October, he retains loyal supporters who are faithful to him — and undaunted by his setbacks — in a way that no other candidates’ supporters are. That devotion did not just help revive Mr. Sanders’s campaign; it has buttressed his fund-raising prowess and kept him a front-runner, in Iowa and elsewhere. Now, with less than five weeks until the caucuses here, even Democratic officials acknowledge he is being underestimated.

His campaign has already earmarked tens of millions of dollars for television advertising in the first four nominating states and California — a tangible benefit of being so flush with cash. He can also begin to advertise and build organizational strength in other Super Tuesday states, an advantage few of his rivals can match.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-fundraising.html