The average donation to the senator's 2020 presidential campaign was $18.53.
The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Thursday that it had raised more than $34.5 million in the final quarter of 2019, affirming Sanders’s status as a fundraising juggernaut amid a polling rebound that began in October.
“Bernie Sanders is closing the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign,” Shakir said. “He is proving each and every day that working-class Americans are ready and willing to fully fund a campaign that stands up for them and takes on the biggest corporations and the wealthy.”
Sanders is likely to end up with the largest fourth-quarter haul of the four top-polling presidential candidates ― and possibly the largest total of the entire year. The campaign has raised $96 million since launching in late February, including $18 million from 900,000 donations in December alone ― the campaign’s strongest month to date.
More than merely giving Sanders financial breathing room in the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses ― the kind of slack that could enable him to court more hard-to-get seniors with television ads ― it provides fodder for him to argue his electability in a general election match-up against President Donald Trump. In an email to supporters on Wednesday, Sanders predicted that he would net 50 million donations in a battle against Trump, making $1 billion an attainable fundraising goal.
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