NEWS: Bernie 2020 Reports $24 Million and nearly 1 million small-dollar donations in second quarter.

[Donkees]

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In second quarter, Sanders amasses nearly 1 million small-dollar donations; 99.9% of donors can continue giving

WASHINGTON — Bernie 2020 today announced a record grassroots fundraising haul with nearly one million donations in the second fundraising quarter. Overall the campaign booked $24 million in the second quarter, raising $18 million and transferring $6 million. This quarter’s fundraising reflects a growing and persistent grassroots movement in support of Sen. Sanders’ presidential bid driven by working people. The average donation was $18 and nearly 99.9% of donors can give again, showing durable and energetic grassroots support that will continue to back the campaign in the many months leading up to the first caucuses and primaries.

Sanders held exactly zero big dollar fundraisers and rejected money from Wall Street executives and the fossil fuel industry. 99.3% percent of donations were $100 or less. The most frequent donations by occupation and employer came from teachers and Walmart workers. Since the launch of the campaign, there have been nearly 2 million individual donations.

“This is a movement built by working people all across this country,” said campaign manager Faiz Shakir. “While other candidates court big money at fancy fundraisers, this campaign is supported by teachers, retail workers, and nurses who are putting what little money they have behind the one candidate who can bring about the transformative change this country needs. Our strength is in numbers and we have a million person movement committed to this campaign who can give over and over again.”

Other numbers to note:

The campaign received almost 200,000 individual donations since the day of the first debate
The 2016 campaign did not get to 2 million donations until December of 2015 — eight months into the campaign
The most common profession was a teacher
The most common employer was Walmart. Others in the top 10 include Amazon, Starbucks, Target and the US Postal Service — the people Bernie is fighting for
More than 225,000 donations from people in the first five states during Q2

The second quarter fundraising haul comes as Bernie 2020 lends its traditional fundraising channels, like email and peer-to-peer texting, to support issue advocacy causes and local activism. In the last few months, Bernie 2020 has emailed and texted supporters to warn them of ICE raids and inform immigrants of their rights, turn out people to support workers on picket lines at McDonalds, the University of California, Delta and American Airlines, Wabtec, Amazon, General Motors, Disney, and Nissan, and fundraise for local abortion rights groups after the Alabama abortion ban.

“You don’t need Wall Street or fossil fuel money to harness a movement. In fact, by rejecting the influence of corporate money we have built a campaign that not only speaks to the working people and their issues but supports them in tangible ways. This is what a Bernie Sanders presidency would look like,” said Shakir.

https://berniesanders.com/2019/07/02/bernie-2020-reports-24-million-in-q2/

[Peacetrain]

1. Back the horse up here... someone else just posted

18 million??

[Kahuna7]

2. Psst....

6 Q1, plus 18 Q2, = 24 million.

"Overall the campaign booked $24 million in the second quarter, raising $18 million and transferring $6 million. This quarter’s fundraising reflects a growing and persistent grassroots movement in support of Sen. Sanders’ presidential bid driven by working people. The average donation was $18 and nearly 99.9% of donors can give again, showing durable and energetic grassroots support that will continue to back the campaign in the many months leading up to the first caucuses and primaries."

[Peacetrain]

4. Thanks..

oh oh oh

[seaglass]

5. Is everyone else reporting combined 2 quarters? This is just to make those who read

headlines only believe he raised more than he did in Q2.

[Kahuna7]

6. Just the usual gas lighting. nt

[seaglass]

8. And he actually raised 18+ in Q1 so this makes no sense. Wonder how many new

donors he got.

[mobeau69]

10. Creative Bookkeeping

[Kahuna7]

11. I stand corrected. However he is conflating Q1 and Q2. nt

[sacto95834]

19. Cash on Hand...

I read it as this is how much he starts the 3rd quarter with. 6M unspent from Q1 + 18M in the 2nd Q. But I may be wrong.

Compared to the Orange Thing, 24M seems small.

[Uncle Joe]

23. I believe you are correct..

but the orange thing has a natural advantage against any Democrat as he is a shitting..I mean sitting President and one of only two candidates in the Republican Party to receive largess in order to run.

[George II]

15. The actual FEC report will be available by the end of the week or early next week.

[honest.abe]

3. ..

[left-of-center2012]

7. Sooo ?

He did no better than Pete Buttigieg?

[seaglass]

9. He did worse. 6m was transferred in so he raised 18m in Q2. Still a lot of

money.

[George II]

14. He only received $18 million.

[Politicub]

12. Great for Bernie. And it also tells a story when contrasted with Mayor Pete's fundraising.

Mayor Pete raised also raised $24 million during the quarter, and he did this without the name recognition and mailing list that Bernie enjoys.

People are looking for fresh perspectives. The fundraising haul story bears this out.

[George II]

13. That "small dollar donatIONs" is misleading:

In the first quarter, for example, he had three contributors who gave:

129 times for a total of $638 ($4.94 each)
112 times for a total of $124 ($1.10 each)
103 times for a total of $615 ($5.97 each)

Plus, of about 9200 itemized contributors, more than half gave more than once accounting for 23,000 contributions of 28,000.

It's a way to keep the "average" down and "number of contributions" up.

[Skidmore]

21. Jesu.

Trump U. accounting.

[crazytown]

16. $18 million

$6 million carried over.

[Gothmog]

17. sanders only raised $18 million and transferred $6 million from senate account

Mayor Pete's numbers look strong in comparison

[BlueWI]

20. Average $18 gifts

Most common employer: Wal-Mart.

Taking nothing away from Buttigieg's accomplishment, $18 million is an impressive amount from small donors. That lesson shouldn't be missed by other candidates if they want to maintain an economically diverse base of supporters.

[George II]

22. But they're not really "small donors". We have to see the FEC filing, but in the past....

....there were a number of BIG donors, i.e., maxing out at $5400 (that was the old limit) by making hundreds of "small donations", which tended to keep that average down. Note that he talks about "donations", not "donors".

The actual filing will probably be on the FEC website in about a week.

[Nanjeanne]

18. It's similar to how Beto reported his first haul. Didn't like it then and don't like it that

Sanders is doing it now. I think $18 million is a terrific amount and nothing to sneeze out considering it wasn't done through big ticket fundraising events or bundling.

Oh well . . . politics.

Edited to add some interesting statistics

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