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Bernie 2016
"People Power"
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:15 TV ad announced Dec. 17, 2015.
[Music]
Sanders:
Over
two
million
contributions
have been made to the only campaign that
rejects a corrupt campaign finance system.
You can't level the playing field with Wall Street
banks and billionaires by taking their money.
I’m
Bernie
Sanders
and
I
approve this
message.
Notes: There was
also a no-text version of this ad with just the photos and Sanders'
audio.
The
Dec. 17, 2015 press release on the ads:
Donations to Sanders' People
Powered Campaign Top 2 Million
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders’ supporters have made
presidential
campaign history by donating more than 2 million times to his campaign
for the Democratic Party nomination.
“Over 2 million contributions have been made to the only campaign that
rejects a corrupt campaign finance system,” Sanders says in a
television and Internet advertisement entitled People Power.
“You can’t level the playing field with Wall Street banks and
billionaires by taking their money,” Sanders adds in the new message.
In a statement, Sanders thanked his supporters. “What our vision of a
political revolution has already accomplished is to show that we can
run a strong and we believe winning campaign without a super PAC,
without contributions from millionaires and billionaires,” Sanders
said. “We are enormously proud that we have received more individual
contributions at this point in the campaign than any candidate who is
not an incumbent president. As the campaign continues to succeed, we
expect those numbers to grow exponentially.”
More than $3 million was raised since an online push was launched on
Monday to top 2 million donations. Of that total, about $1.6 million
has been raised since Wednesday alone.
The average donation to Sanders this week has been about $20 as many of
the more than 800,000 donors were showing their financial support for a
second or third time. Just 261 Sanders backers have given the maximum
allowable contribution of $2,700, accounting for a mere 1.7 percent of
his campaign's total reported money raised. That’s a sharp contrast to
Hillary Clinton’s 17,575 maxed-out donors, whose donations accounted
for almost 62 percent of her money raised, according to Federal
Election Commission records for the first three quarters of this year.
No other candidate who is not a sitting president ever received 2
million donations by this point in a White House campaign. Then Sen.
Barack Obama had surpassed 1 million donations to his first campaign
for president by the time of the 2008 Iowa caucuses. In his run for a
second term, reports indicated Obama receiving around 2.2 million
contributions by the end of 2011, a figure Sanders still could surpass.
To watch the new ad, click here.