U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders likes to talk up grassroots support of his presidential campaign, and one of his favorite metrics is individual donations. When she unveiled the think tank in June 2017, Jane Sanders … Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Tout Small Donors; Here's The Math Presidential campaigns filed their first fundraising reports of the 2016 election. "The billionaire class should be very, very nervous," Sanders tweeted. NPR … The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday that it raised $25.3 million from 1.4 million individual donations in the third quarter of 2019, the largest fundraising quarter of any 2020 Democratic White House contender thus far. For a minute Bernie … Sen. Bernie Sanders has received contributions from 1 million donors, his 2020 campaign announced Thursday. "The working people of this country are ready for a political revolution." Jane Sanders told the AP that the group raised about $730,000 last year, much of it in "small donations from about 10,000 donors." "The big-money donors are capitalists. Federal Election Commission, Bernie Sanders 2006 Senate campaign report of Jeffrey Forbes donations, accessed Feb. 27, 2020 Center for … Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in New York City, March 2, 2019. The Problem with Sanders’s Small Donors By Jay Cost. Donors to the Biden committees include James Murdoch, Steven Spielberg and Merck CEO Ken Frazier. Pinpointing the source of much of Sanders' campaign funds is difficult, in large part because of campaign laws that allow small donations to be kept under wraps. And as the campaign accelerates this fall, Warren and Sanders are poised to compound the effect of their small donors. About Jay Cost April 29, 2019 6:30 AM. Sanders, now a frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, raised more than $453,000 in January from Minnesotans donating through ActBlue, the fundraising platform many Democratic candidates use to collect small contributions.