Mark Wayne Glasmire Competitors

The 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the junior United States Senator and former Representative from Vermont, began with an informal announcement on April 30, 2015, and a formal announcement that he planned to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States on May 26, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont. Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for president since at least September 2014. Though he had previously run as an independent, he routinely caucused with the Democratic Party, as many of his views align with Democrats. Running as a Democrat made it easier to participate in debates and get his name on state ballots. Sanders focused on income and wealth inequality, which he argued is eroding the American middle class, and on campaign finance reform. Unlike most other major presidential candidates, Sanders eschewed an unlimited super PAC, instead choosing to receive most of his funding from direct individual campaign donations. In September 2015, The New York Times reported that the campaign had received one million individual donations, becoming the first in 2015 to reach that threshold. Sanders raised $20,000,000 in the month of January 2016, $5,000,000 more than Clinton during the same time period, with an average donation of $27. Sanders frequently mentioned this $27 figure on the campaign trail as proof of his grassroots support.

(Official US Senate campaign account) We will not only work to re-elect Elizabeth to the Senate, but we will also support Democratic candidates who share our vision, mobilize people to support those candidates and these ideas, and continue to build the grassroots movement that Elizabeth Warren inspired. We need to fight for the pandemic relief measures we desperately need today, and to make sure we elect Democrats up and down the ballot to see this crisis through for working families. We are building a powerful organizing network to do just that. To that end, Warren Democrats will: Help elect Democratic candidates who share Elizabeth’s vision for big, structural change and support bold reform as a response to this crisis. Help power the fight at the federal and local level by organizing together to push for the solutions we need right now and for bold, popular grassroots economic and government reform in the months to come. Mobilize grassroots supporters to ensure Elizabeth Warren remains a powerful national voice and is re-elected to the Senate in 2024.

Campaign for Republican Representative, Karen Handel, from Georgia's 6th Congressional District