With $10,217 in charitable donations, according to The Washington Post, Sanders has a 5 percent giving rate. The king of small donations walks the walk. A supporter of public-financed elections, Sanders checked the box on his tax return to support the presidential election campaign fund—a $6 donation that perpetuates a consistent track record.
Apr 15, 2016 · Sanders and his wife, Jane, donated $8,350 to charity while reporting an adjusted gross income of about $205,000 that year, according to his tax return.
Feb 11, 2016 · Clinton. She collected $336,416 in donations, over a third of the total contributions during the 2016 presidential campaign. The next biggest …
Jan 01, 2020 · In 2016, Sanders donated just $10,600 of his $1 million income — around 1 percent — to charity. His total household donations since 2009 manage to …
Brazile wrote that she had "promised" Sanders to find out if the DNC had intentionally "rigged" the primary system in order to prop up Clinton and assure she became the nominee. That assertion first popped up after the DNC's emails, hacked by Russians, had been published online and showed former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...
Hillary Clinton's campaign took over the Democratic National Committee's funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party's one-time interim chairwoman. The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, ...
In 2008 and 2012 Barack Obama won with potentially durable majorities, and all Clinton really needed to do was get the same voters to back a Democratic candidate for a third time.
The first was an announcement that her voters should read Verrit, a website managed by a former Clinton digital strategist that purports to post verified facts for the 65.8 million people who voted for her. One of the site’s first such facts was that Bernie Sanders helped put Donald Trump in the White House. Later on, an excerpt from Clinton’s new ...
One of the site’s first such facts was that Bernie Sanders helped put Donald Trump in the White House. Later on, an excerpt from Clinton’s new book leaked, in which she blames Sanders for hobbling her in the general election, though she seems far more circumspect about why she lost in general. Still, this all begs the question, did Bernie Sanders ...
Now in his 15th year in the Senate, Sanders, 79, currently serves as chair of the Senate Committee on the Budget. RELATED: Bernie Sanders Reacts to Mittens' Popularity, Offers Sweatshirt with Inauguration Meme for Charity.
After Biden opted not to launch his own run for president in 2016, the former vice president reached out to Sanders to offer some insight during the latter's initial campaign, Sanders told Gloria Borger.