Sanders Pulls In $1.5 Million from 35K Donors

Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that his presidential campaign “has raised more than $1.5 million online in the 24 hours since he announced his candidacy,” the Washington Post reports.

“It is a surprisingly heavy haul for a candidate whom some in the Democratic chattering class have cast off as a gadfly and viewed as unable to wrest the nomination from the overwhelming favorite, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The donations came from a broad base of supporters — some 35,000 donors who gave an average of $43.54 a piece, according to the Sanders campaign.”