Senator from Vermont pulls
biggest fundraising haul yet and leads Clinton by 33 points in next primary
state
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Fresh off his "political
revolution" in Iowa, Bernie Sanders is riding high.
The senator from Vermont
raised $3 million in 24 hours since Monday's caucus—his biggest single day
yet—and, according to a new poll released Wednesday, leads Hillary Clinton by
33 points in New Hampshire, where the next presidential primary will take place
on February 9.
"It's been our best day
ever" in terms of fundraising, Sanders' communications director Michael
Briggs told
the Washington Post on Wednesday. Four in 10 of the donors who gave to the
campaign after Sanders' speech Monday night had never given before,
Briggs said.
Sanders told
Today on Wednesday, "To tell you the truth, the Iowa caucus is so
complicated, it's not 100 percent sure that we didn't win it. But we feel
fantastic. We came a long, long way in Iowa, and now we're in New Hampshire,
and we have a lot of momentum."
And New Hampshire seems ready
to take the baton. A University
of Massachusetts-Lowell/7 News survey (pdf) released Wednesday found that
not only does Sanders pull 61 percent there compared to Clinton's 30 percent,
but that voters in the state have long been ready to support him, as the
results are virtually unchanged from the previous survey.
About 81 percent of Sanders'
supporters said they would "definitely" vote in his favor, with 19
percent saying they "could change their minds" about him, while
Clinton received 75 percent "definite" support and 25 percent saying
they might rethink the former secretary of state.
On Tuesday, the Iowa
Democratic Party declared Clinton the caucus winner by a slim margin—49.9 to
49.6. But for many, Sanders stole the show Monday night, telling
supporters in a speech that their votes "sent a very profound message
to the political establishment, to the economic establishment, and by the way,
to the media establishment. It is just too late for establishment politics and
establishment economics."
"What Iowa has begun
tonight is a political revolution," he said.
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