Representatives from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) political action committee reached out and asked Paul Joffe if he would be willing to sell the domain name BernieSanders.com to them, CNN reports.

“He gave them a flat no. He didn’t want money, he told them. All he wanted was to meet the senator.”

“The story of how Sanders, the newly minted presidential candidate, came to own BernieSanders.com exemplifies the kind of grassroots liberal support the independent senator enjoys. And the story of his acquisition contrasts vividly with domain name mistakes that have hurt other presidential candidates.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced his 2016 presidential campaign had pulled in $3 million over the last four days, The Hill reports.

“Sanders’s campaign had received approximately 75,000 contributions at an average amount of $43… A campaign adviser also told the publication 99.4 percent of the donations were in the amounts of $250 or less.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “long has been close to the Democratic Party. He has won the endorsements of top national Democrats in some of his elections. Even as an Independent he caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate. Earlier this year he was named by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid as the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee,” WMUR reports.

“But when it comes to filing to appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot, none of that may matter. Here, it’s the state law that counts and the state law requires party registration.”

“What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong when you have more income and wealth equality. What’s wrong when they have a stronger middle class in many ways than we do, a higher minimum wage than we do and they’re stronger on the environment than we are.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on whether he wants America “to look more like Scandinavia.”

“Citing a history of surprising victories, Bernie Sanders said on Sunday the political world shouldn’t discount his chances of winning the presidency,” Politico reports.

Said Sanders: “Don’t underestimate me.”

He added: “We need a political revolution in this country and I want to lead that effort.”

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.”

“We’re looking at a system where our democracy is being owned by a handful of billionaires.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by ABC News, on why he’s running for president.

Rick Klein: “Bernie Sanders has almost no realistic chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president. But that’s not the most effective way to think about his candidacy. His presence in the race ensures that Hillary Clinton will be pressed continually and consistently from the left — and now potentially from across the debate stage. Interest in Sanders will be driven by many of the same activists and other Democratic faithful who wanted so desperately to see Elizabeth Warren in the race. And Sanders’ timing could hardly be better: the left is growing anxious over President Obama’s agenda and nervous that Hillary Clinton might be tempted to provide minimal amounts of daylight between her policy positions and his.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) plans to run for president as a Democrat, becoming the only official party challenger so far to Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reports.

“According to people familiar with the senator’s plans, he will release a statement on Thursday and make a more formal announcement of candidacy later next month in Vermont. That event will likely take place at City Hall in Burlington, where he was mayor.”

USA Today: “It also will be the first time that the fiercely independent politician has run as a Democrat. He has long criticized both parties for being too beholden to corporate interests. He does not accept campaign contributions from corporate political action committees.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has relaunched his campaign website in a way that makes it look like he’s going to be running a national campaign.

“My wife always reminds me I depress everybody so much that I need to pass out tranquilizers.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by the Boston Globe, joking about his curmudgeonly demeanor.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tells Time he would run a “class-based” presidential campaign that could “unfurl as early as March.”

His biggest regret about President Obama is that he never stood up like Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in 1936 to denounce the “economic royalists” of finance and industry, to “welcome their hatred.”

Said Sanders: “Point the finger at the billionaire class to say, ‘You know what, they hate my guts, the Koch brothers hate me, it’s all right. But I’m with you, and this is what we’re going to do.'”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) told the Associated Press that he will decide by March whether to run for president in 2016.

Said Sanders: “I don’t want to do it unless I can do it well. I don’t want to do it unless we can win this thing.”

Sanders also said that he is still unsure if he would run as an independent or a Democrat.

The New York Times follows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Iowa: “At 73 and famously gruff, he may be on one of the most quixotic adventures in American politics: In a country that just put Republicans in charge of Congress, he is testing whether Democrats will embrace a socialist for the White House in 2016. He is certainly the only potential candidate to carry a brass key chain from a campaign of Eugene V. Debs, a five-time Socialist Party nominee for president.”

“He has virtually no chance of winning the nomination, but he does have a chance to shape the debate — presuming he actually runs. With his fiery populist attacks on Wall Street and ‘the billionaire class,’ he could become either a nettlesome thorn to Hillary Rodham Clinton or a convenient foil for her, if she runs.”