Sanders announces record fundraising for 2015
US Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders has set a new record in terms of small donations, according to his campaign.
The Vermont senator enjoyed 2.5 million individual donations in the last quarter of 2015, amounting to more than $33 million, his campaign managers said Saturday.
This means Sanders has shattered President Barack Obama’s record, which stood at 2.2 million individual donations in his fourth quarter re-election fundraising in 2011.
The new figure pushed Sanders’s year-end total fundraising to more than $73 million from more than one million people.
“This people-powered campaign is revolutionizing American politics,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’s campaign manager. “What we are showing is that we can run a strong, national campaign without a Super PAC and without depending on millionaires and billionaires for their support. We are making history and we are proud of it.”
Sanders, who is running against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for the party’s nomination, entered the race for the 2016 presidential elections without starting a Super PAC to raise funds from corporations, unions and other resourceful groups without legal boundaries.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign managers announced Friday that the former secretary of state earned $112 million last year, breaking the campaign’s initial goal of $100 million.
A national poll by Quinnipiac University indicated in late December that, by June 2016, not only will Sanders be well-placed to defeat Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination, he will also beat GOP front-runner Donald Trump by a landslide to become America’s next president in November.
The poll found that Sanders will defeat the Republican billionaire businessman in a general election by 13 percentage points, 51 to 38 percent.
The Vermont senator has recently called on Trump’s supporters to endorse his campaign instead.
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