Bernie Sanders raised more than other Democratic candidates in wake of 2020 announcement

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., raised $3.3 million in the first 12 hours after he announced he would seek the Democratic nomination.

The money, which came from 120,000 donors, beat the first-day fundraising totals of his rivals.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who announced she was running for president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, raised $1.5 million online in the first 24 hours after she announced her presidential bid from 38,000 donors.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., raised $1 million in the first 48 hours after she announced in a snowstorm earlier this month that she would run for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

In the first 15 hours after announcing she was officially running in 2020, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., raised only $300,000.

Sanders announced Tuesday that he would again seek the Democratic nomination.

In 2016 Sanders lost the Democratic primary bid to Hillary Clinton, despite a large following, especially from younger progressives.

With Sanders’ announcement, there are now a dozen Democrats running in the primaries to take on President Trump in 2020.

“I think the current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment to our country. I think he is a pathological liar,” the 77-year-old independent senator said Tuesday. “I also think he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.”

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