Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Sunday that his campaign raised $46.5 million in the month of February, shattering his previous record for the most raised in one month.
The $46.5 million haul from February, which is a substantial addition to the Vermont senator’s already formidable war chest, almost doubles the $25 million the campaign raised in the month of January. The announcement comes at a time when the campaign is looking to Super Tuesday and beyond, following a loss to former Vice President Joe Biden in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary.
The massive fundraising total came from more than 2.2 million donations, including contributions from more than 350,000 people who donated to the campaign for the first time. The last day of February proved to be the best fundraising day since the launch of the campaign, raising $4.5 million in one day, according to the campaign.
“The senator’s multigenerational, multiracial working class coalition keeps fueling his campaign for transformational change a few bucks at a time,” Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement. “We’re especially proud that of the more than 2 million donations we received this month, over 1.4 million were from voters in states that vote on Super Tuesday.”
Donors in the month of February most commonly identified their occupation as “teacher,” and the five most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the United States Postal Service and Target. The average donation was $21, which is higher than the $18.72 average in January.
Sanders has consistently weaved Super Tuesday states into his early state travel, cross-crossing the country in an effort to make his case to a wider audience. Sanders is currently on air in 12 out of the 14 states voting on Tuesday.
The campaign also announced Sunday that part of the funds acquired in February will be put toward television buys in nine states that hold primaries in later March. Sanders will soon appear on television in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and Washington, which all hold contests on March 10, and Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, which hold contests on March 17.
Sanders has now surpassed the total number of individual contributions received by his 2016 campaign, topping 8.7 million donations since February 2019. At this point, more than 1.9 million people have donated to the campaign and more than 99.9% of donors have not maxed out and can donate to the campaign again.
Since the campaign’s February 2019 launch, Sanders has raised more than $167 million. The total for the campaign does not include an additional $12.7 million in transfers all made in 2019 from Sanders’ other federal accounts.
