Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign on Thursday announced it raised more than $34.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 with more than 25,000 donations from Hoosiers. Since launching the campaign, Bernie 2020 has received more than $1 million from Indiana, with nearly $370,000 raised during the fourth quarter alone.
“Bernie Sanders is closing the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign,” Campaign Manager Faiz 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. You build a grassroots movement to beat Donald Trump and create a political revolution one $18 donation at a time, and that’s exactly why Bernie is going to win.”
Sanders’ campaign raised more than $18 million from over 900,000 donations in December alone, which is the campaign’s single best fundraising month to date. Nearly 300,000 new donors gave in the fourth quarter.
“Teacher” was the most common occupation of Sanders’ fourth quarter donors, the five most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the United States Postal Service and Target, and the average donation was $18.53.
Since the campaign’s February launch, Sanders has received more than 71,000 donations from residents of the Hoosier State. Overall, over 5 million individual donations have fueled the campaign, averaging $18 and more than 99.9 percent of donors have not maxed out and can give again. That total does not include an additional $12.7 million in transfers all made in prior quarters from Sanders’ other federal accounts. Sanders’ 2016 campaign did not hit the 5 million donations mark until after Super Tuesday.
