VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign says that it raised more than $46.5 million in February, a show of financial strength after the Vermont senator finished a distant second behind Joe Biden in South Carolina’s primary.
Fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren announces collecting a respectable $29 million last month, as she copes with a weaker South Carolina showing. But both do better than that state’s winner. Biden says on CNN that he’d raised about $17 million since the start of February — including a $5 million boost in the last 24 hours that coincided with his first win of the primary.
Sanders’ team says it’s making television ad buys in nine more states: Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and Washington, which vote on March 10, and Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, which vote a week later. The campaign says it is “currently on the air in 12 out of the 14 states” that are voting on Super Tuesday, in two days.
The eye-popping haul follows an already impressive January that raised more than $25 million. Sanders’ campaign immediately said it would use the January funds to purchase $5.5 million in television and digital advertising in 10 Super Tuesday states.
— AP
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, gestures during a campaign rally on February 29, 2020, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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