Bernie Sanders Raises Nearly $6 Million in Donations During First 24 Hours of His Campaign

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hit the ground running in his 2020 presidential campaign, collecting $5,925,771 in the first 24 of his bid’s hours thanks to 223,047 individual donors, according to a statement released by the campaign. As tweeted by The Daily Beast’s Gideon Resnick, the Sanders camp received $600,000 in donations that will recur monthly. His previous single-day fundraising record in 2016 was $6.5 million in donations following his New Hampshire primary win, the Washington Post reports. Tuesday’s total shatters the previous opening day record.

Over 12 hours later:
—223,047 individual donors through the first 24 hours
—$5,925,771 total collected
—$600,000 in donations that will recur every month pic.twitter.com/oP7wr0yUzf
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) February 20, 2019

Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, CNN’s Ryan Nobles reported that Sanders officially announced his run, that the left-leaning candidate raised $3.3 million from 120,000 individual donors.

JUST IN: The @BernieSanders campaign reports that they have brought in more than $3.3 Million from 120k individual donors since his launch this morning.
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) February 19, 2019

That number blows Kamala Harris, one of the most active Democratic fundraisers so far, out of the water. The California Senator racked up $1.5 million from over 38,000 individual donors in her first 24 hours, The Daily Beast reports.