Bernie Sanders Raises $6 Million After Announcing Presidential Bid - Polidicks

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/bernie-sanders-fundraising.html Kamala first 24 hours: $1.5 million Klobuchar first 48 hours $1 million Warren first 24 hours: $300K Bernie first 24 hours: $6 million. Absolutely insane.

I really hope he doesn't die soon. I am all for him, and am okay with his being elected despite his age, but it would be foolish to pretend like it is not a possibility. Hopefully his VP will be a good pick.

He's physically fit and not that much older. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/643e327f-c6bd-48a9-888c-e5d6c5293f17/19y;02mo;19dy - 09hr;05mi;11s;096ms - 239W x 238H -410b - chrome.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/a823b157-23ff-4bac-a4bc-5dfeb4259bff/19y;02mo;19dy - 09hr;04mi;26s;216ms - 244W x 221H -408b - chrome.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/77770626-dab3-4cd2-9e82-5fe1fc849323/19y;02mo;19dy - 09hr;04mi;17s;173ms - 263W x 225H -407b - chrome.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/bae1245c-a207-4116-8810-686b5290ce84/19y;02mo;19dy - 09hr;04mi;10s;673ms - 275W x 238H -406b - chrome.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/f6009d8c-1226-40ef-ae34-f9a84ea0220b/19y;02mo;19dy - 09hr;03mi;30s;616ms - 247W x 217H -405b - chrome.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/c9fe6dca-efe0-4833-8782-a26d51342949/19y;02mo;19dy - 09hr;06mi;09s;588ms - 235W x 231H -411b - chrome.png

holy shit, nancy pelosi is 78?

is that really suprising? Diane Feinstein would be in her 90s if she ran for another term

Current oldest senator https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/6fe41ff3-447e-4985-b52a-3c575cdc06bf/image.png

$6 million in 24 hours is newsworthy, because it was newsworthy that Kamala Harris reached $1.5 million in 24 hours, which in turn was newsworthy because it exceeded Sanders's previous record of (IIRC) $1 million in 24 hours. I don't think the intent is to just keep posting daily tallies of Sanders's fundraising.

They all look their age, too, except Mueller and Trump, but Trump is caked in shit to hide it.

As others have said, the main reason threads have been posted regarding his fundraising is due to how quickly he surpassed the supposed "frontrunners" (beat Kamala under 4 hours), extrapolation of fundraising at 12 hours (at 4 million), and finally, the standard of fundraising support with 24 hours (this thread).

Really expected Warren to have more, blimey.

Compared to Bernie, shes just kinda boring =\

By contrast, Harris gets my heart going because 'literally a Prosecutor being put in the executive in these times of abject corruption and flagrant thumbed-noses at the law' is a fantastic seed to grow her campaign from. I want someone intelligent, I want someone who treats their job seriously, I want someone who won't take shit from the Republicans, and I want someone who understands the law and when it's being broken and/or is willing to bring in advisors who are experts in those fields to advise them properly on those matters. That's Sanders and that's Harris right there. We desperately need UBI and Universal Healthcare and Climate Change Defenses/Offenses -- but we can achieve none of that with all these assholes completely gumming up the works who want so much pounds of flesh before 'they'll move on anything' that the whole hog is stripped to the bone before it makes its way halfway around the Senate.

I'm curious to see how organized corporate america's sabotage attempts will be. We haven't seen a candidate try to reign in business for a hundred years and I'm intrigued what they'll try to do this time. We've already seen Howard Schultz's plan to split the vote which will laughably fail because of how limp dicked his platform of maintaining the status quo is, but I'm more intrigued by what big pharma, big Oil, Silicon valley and the financial sector will do to maintain their profit margins because they're not upfront about it. Watch the political action committees on this one guys & gals.

He's gonna win in 2020.

People like coldplay and voted for the nazis DaleCooper, you can't trust people.

That's fair, but Kamala Harris, as head of the California DOJ, opposed a court order to release inmates whose conditions were deemed cruel and unusual punishment opposed the release of an inmate who had been proven innocent, over an issue of court procedure (he filed an appeal too late) advocated for jailing parents whose kids were truant from school claimed no knowledge of a sexual harassment lawsuit against one of her top aides, eventually settled for $400k generally upheld a tough-on-crime attitude disproportionately affecting the poor and minorities Now that she's running for president, she's already started walking back on her promise of Medicare for all. I think she's exactly who Sanders was talking about when he said that commitment to the issues matters more than identity- she might be black and a woman, but in some respects her policy record is as far from progressive as you can get. She might make a good VP but I wouldn't want her as president, especially given that she's more closely tied to the DNC than Sanders or Warren and consequently less likely to enact meaningful anti-corporate reform.

Harris is out for me because she won't reform the criminal justice system, and doens't see a point to it. She's alright on a lot of tihngs but her stance on criminals and the criminal justice system in the US is just untenable going forward.

So if Bernie achieves some sort of crazy 48 hour fundraising goal, will that be worthy of a news post? Just speculating because it seems like he has a lot of momentum. I wonder if he could break $10M in 48 hours or when the initial wave of donations will die down.

Just listening to the latest 538 podcast and Nate Silver (Punished Nate, The Fallen Legend) says he now believes Bernie would have won in 2016

She is part of the problem with our broken justice system. She is one of the people actively propping it and its failures up

Do these people just not get to retire or what

Mr. Sanders received $600,000 in donations that will recur monthly, his campaign said. In the first 24 hours they not only raised $5.9m, but guaranteed at least $600,000 more in donations (assuming each donor only recurs their donation a single time and then cancels, which isn't likely). If that $600k all recurs for 12 months (which is the default length ActBlue gives when you set up a recurring subscription), they've effectively raised $13,100,000 in the first 24 hours of the campaign. So the effective net total for the first 24 hours of Bernie's campaign is anywhere from $6,500,000 -> $13,100,000