Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign

Bernie Sanders for President
Campaign2016 United States presidential election
CandidateBernie Sanders
AffiliationDemocratic Party
(previously served as an Independent in Senate)
StatusAnnounced: April 30, 2015
Formal launch: May 26, 2015
Endorsed Hillary Clinton: July 12, 2016[1]
Lost nomination: July 26, 2016
Headquarters131 Church Street, Suite 300
Burlington, Vermont
Key people
ReceiptsUS$180,630,234.25[6] (2016-3-31)
Slogan
  • A Future To Believe In
  • Not me. Us.
  • A Political Revolution Is Coming
  • Not For Sale
  • Enough Is Enough
  • Feel the Bern
ChantFeel The Bern
Website
berniesanders.com
(archived - July 1, 2016)
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In the 2016 presidential campaign, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sought the Democratic Party's nomination in a field of six major candidates and was the runner up with 46% of the pledged delegates behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who won the contest with 54%. Sanders, the junior United States senator and former Representative from Vermont, began with an informal announcement on April 30, 2015,[7][8] 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.[9] Though he had previously run as an independent, he routinely caucused with the Democratic Party, as many of his views align with Democrats.[10] Running as a Democrat made it easier to participate in debates and get his name on state ballots.[8]

Sanders's chief competitor for the nomination was Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state. Sanders drew large crowds to his speaking events,[11] and his populist and progressive politics won him particular support among Americans under 40. He performed strongly with white voters, but consistently trailed Clinton by 30 or more percentage points among black voters; polls showed a close race among Hispanic voters.[12]

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.[13] 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.[14][15][16] 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.[17] Sanders frequently mentioned this $27 figure on the campaign trail as proof of his grassroots support.[18][19][20]

Following the final primary election (the District of Columbia's, on June 14), Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee. Sanders did then endorse Clinton, and said he would work with her to defeat the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.[21] On June 16, Sanders gave a live online speech to his supporters, saying, "The political revolution continues".[22] On July 12, Sanders officially endorsed Clinton at a unity rally with her in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

On July 22, 2016, various emails stolen by one or more hackers operating under the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0"[23] from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the governing body of the Democratic Party, were leaked and published, revealing bias against the Sanders campaign on the part of the committee and its chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.[24] Schultz subsequently resigned as DNC chair and was replaced by Donna Brazile, who was also implicated in the leaks and apologized to Sanders and his supporters. In the Democratic National Convention roll-call vote on July 26, 2016, Sanders received 1,865 votes (39% of the vote), which consisted of 1,848 pledged delegates won in primary and caucus contests (46% of the total) and 17 superdelegates (4%). After the roll call, Sanders put forward a motion to formally nominate Clinton, which passed by voice vote. Although Sanders lost, he and the political movement his campaign created succeeded in moving the Democratic Party platform as a whole to the left, including support for a $15 minimum wage, marijuana legalization, the abolition of capital punishment, and criminal justice reform.[25]

  1. ^ Seitz-Wald, Alex (July 12, 2016) "Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton at New Hampshire Rally", NBCNews.com.
  2. ^ Chozick, Amy; Healy, Patrick (July 6, 2015). "Hillary Clinton's Team Is Wary as Bernie Sanders Finds Footing in Iowa". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 23, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2020. 'That's just political chatter and the usual tactics', said Jeff Weaver, [Bernie Sanders]'s campaign manager.
  3. ^ Atwood, Kylie (March 3, 2016). "Bernie Sanders' campaign predicts success in next contests". CBS News. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2020. 'We do not think the calendar ahead looks nearly as good [for Clinton] as [Tuesday]....' said Tad Devine, [Sanders's] senior campaign strategist, on a conference call with reporters.
  4. ^ Daileda, Colin (August 13, 2015). "Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders aren't natural allies". Mashable. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2020. [Bernie] Sanders recently hired Symone Sanders (no relation) to be his national press secretary.
  5. ^ McMorris-Santoro, Evan (August 9, 2015). "Bernie Sanders' Campaign Adds Young Black Woman As New Public Face". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on January 10, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  6. ^ "FEC REPORT FOR BERNIE 2016". FEC. March 31, 2016. Archived from the original on May 13, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Kelly, Erin (April 30, 2015). "Bernie Sanders: 'I am running in this election to win'". USA Today. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  8. ^ a b Rappeport, Alan (April 29, 2015). "Bernie Sanders Announces He Is Running for President". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  9. ^ Hartmann, Margaret (September 14, 2014). "Independent Senator Bernie Sanders May Challenge Hillary in 2016". New York. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  10. ^ Merica, Dan (April 30, 2015). "Bernie Sanders is running for president". CNN. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016.
  11. ^ Wagner, John; O'Keefe, Ed (August 11, 2015). "100,000 people have come to recent Bernie Sanders rallies. How does he do it?". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  12. ^ Bump, Philip (February 17, 2016). "Hillary Clinton's Firewall May Be Missing Some Bricks". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
  13. ^ Lichtblau, Eric (August 25, 2015). "Bernie Sanders's Success in Attracting Small Donors Tests Importance of 'Super PACs'". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  14. ^ Levitz, Eric (September 30, 2015). "Daily Intelligencer: Bernie Sanders Becomes the First Candidate to Reach 1 Million Individual Donations". New York.
  15. ^ Healy, Patrick (September 30, 2015). "First Draft: Bernie Sanders Raises $26 Million, Powered by Online Donations Exceeding Obama's 2008 Pace". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "The 2016 Money Game". The New York Times. July 15, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  17. ^ Gold, Matea (January 31, 2016). "Bernie Sanders Campaign brings in Jaw-Dropping $20 million in January". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  18. ^ Braswell, Sean (March 17, 2016). "The Fundraising Guru Behind Bernie Sanders' 27 Dollars". Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  19. ^ Holter, Lauren (April 18, 2016). "Bernie Sanders' Average Donation Might Not Be Exactly What He Says It Is". Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  20. ^ Thompson, Isaiah (February 5, 2016). "$27: Bernie Sanders And Hillary Clinton's New England Donations, Mapped By Zip Code". Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  21. ^ Alcindor, Yamiche (June 16, 2016). "Bernie Sanders, Still Running, Pledges to 'Make Certain' Donald Trump Is Defeated". The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  22. ^ "Press release". Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  23. ^ "DNC email leak: Russian hackers Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear behind breach". TheGuardian.com. July 26, 2016.
  24. ^ Shear, Michael; Rosenberg, Matthew (July 22, 2016). "Released Emails Suggest the D.N.C. Derided the Sanders Campaign". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  25. ^ Stein, Jeff (July 25, 2016). "Bernie Sanders moved Democrats to the left. The platform is proof". Vox.


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