A grassroots campaign on fire!

Bernie Sanders’s fundraising prowess boosts his post-New Hampshire efforts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanderss-fundraising-prowess-boosts-his-post-new-hampshire-efforts/2016/02/10/d935d504-cf42-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html

Sen. Bernie Sanders took a few moments in his victory speech Tuesday night to make a small request of his supporters: “Please help us raise the funds we need, whether it’s 10 bucks, 20 bucks, or 50 bucks,” he said.

The response was so overwhelming that his website buckled under the traffic. Between the close of the polls and 12:30 a.m., his campaign brought in $2.6 million.

Sanders is barreling out of New Hampshire in a position few anticipated when he first entered the 2016 White House contest: financially competitive with Hillary Clinton.Boosted by an online fundraising juggernaut, the senator from Vermont has been scooping up donations at a faster clip than Clinton so far this year, giving him unexpected resources for the rush of coming votes in Nevada, South Carolina and the 11 “Super Tuesday” states that hold Democratic contests on March 1.

Clinton started the year with $10 million more than him in the bank, but Sanders raised $20 million to her $15 million in January, helping him narrow her cash advantage. He had his best fundraising day ever in the 24 hours that followed his close loss in last week’s Iowa caucuses,collecting $3 million.Sanders plowed some of his ballooning war chest into additional TV ads in New Hampshire, where he outspent Clinton on the airwaves in the final weeks before beating her resoundingly there.

With more than 89 percent of precincts reporting, he held a more than 20-point lead.His campaign plans to use its funding surge build up its ground operations and roll out robust advertising campaigns in upcoming states.“One of the big things that separates us from past insurgent campaigns is that we’ll have the resources to enable us to compete across a broad range of states,” said Tad Devine, a senior strategist for Sanders.