Backed by Army of Small-Dollar Donors, Sanders Camp Forges Ahead
After his loss to Hillary Clinton in New York’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders is facing a lot of questions—warranted or not—about what comes next for his campaign.
One thing he doesn’t have to worry about: running out of cash.
The Sanders campaign late on Wednesday filed a report with the Federal Election Commission showing it raised nearly $46 million in March—its third straight month of beating rival Clinton in the money race. The record haul shows his campaign has the financial ability to do what Sanders has vowed to do since Super Tuesday: take his political revolution all the way to the Democratic National Convention in June.
But the best approach for doing so is still very much up in the air.
Sanders went home to Vermont on Tuesday night, wanting what advisor Tad Devine called “an opportunity to think.”
“It’s affording him an opportunity to think about where we are in the campaign, what he wants to say in the weeks ahead,” Devine told NBC News.
The campaign is now looking toward April 26 primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware, followed by Indiana, which holds its primary on May 3. Top advisors also spoke Wednesday about how Sanders and his surrogates will seek support from so-called superdelegates as the convention gets closer.
As the race marches on, Sanders “could maintain, or even escalate, his criticism of Clinton on issues such as her speeches to Wall Street,” The Hill wrote on Thursday. “Or he could seek to dial down the tensions in the race, which could help unify the party heading into the Democratic National Convention this summer.”
According to the New York Times, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said “the campaign planned to continue to ask questions about Mrs. Clinton’s ties to Wall Street, her speeches at commercial banks, and her changing stances on policy issues. He also shot back sarcastically when asked whether Mr. Sanders might change the tone of the campaign that in recent weeks has become more contentious.”
“I’ve seen their, I’m sure, heartfelt concerns about the tone of the campaign,” Briggs told the Times of the Clinton campaign. “All I would ask them to do is look in the mirror.”
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