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Memo
Bernie 2020
August 12, 2019
State of the Campaign: Sanders Has
Momentum Post-Debate and Is a Leading Contender for the Democratic
Nomination
- Recruited over 1 million volunteers – more than any other campaign;
- Raised more money than any other Democratic candidate, reporting $36 million raised to-date at the end of the most recent fundraising quarter;
- Received approximately 1.8 million individual donations on ActBlue from roughly 745,000 individual donors – by far the largest number of individual contributors to any Democratic campaign; and
- Leads the field in cash on hand, with $27.5 million at the end of the last quarter.
While
other campaigns are reliant on
high-dollar contributions from wealthy donors, the
average
contribution
to
Bernie
2020 is just $19.
This means nearly all of Sanders’s supporters are able to contribute
again and again, making his campaign sustainable through the long
primary season. A recent independent analysis by
the Center for the Public Integrity and FiveThirtyEight finds that
“nearly one out of every three donors who have given to any
presidential campaign” have given to Sanders.
Sanders Gained the Most Support from the 2nd Debate; Solidifies 2nd Place in Recent Polling
FiveThirtyEight’s recent
analysis
of
post-debate
polling
data finds
that
Bernie
Sanders
has
gained the most ground of any candidate since
the second debate and is currently in a clear second place among the
Democratic field. FiveThirtyEight
analyzed five national polls conducted entirely after the Detroit
debates, compared them with pre-debate polls conducted by the same
pollsters, and weighted the polls based on sample size and pollster
quality ratings to arrive at pre-debate and post-debate averages for
the candidates. Their analysis finds Joe Biden leading with an average
in post-debate national polling of 28.4% followed by Sanders at 17.1%,
Elizabeth Warren at 14.6%, Kamala Harris at 7.9%, and Pete Buttigieg at
5.4%. Sanders has gained a net +1.8 percentage points since his
pre-debate polling average (15.3%), while both Biden (-1.9 points) and
Harris (-2.8) lost ground. Sanders has
gained more support in post-debate polling than any other candidate.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Championing Medicare For All, Sanders Trusted Most on Voters’ Top Priority of Health Care
Health care remains the top polling issue among Democrats — and recent health care-related surveys show positive trends for Sanders’s campaign. They include:
- Polls show “Sanders has the edge on
health care”: The Fiscal Times reported
that
polling
shows
“Bernie
Sanders
the edge over his rivals for the
party’s 2020 presidential nomination when it comes to understanding and
dealing with health care.” Indeed CNN, ABC/Washington Post, Reuters/Ipsos and Morning Consult polls all
show
Sanders is the most trusted candidate on the issue among Democratic
voters.
- Polling continues to find strong majority support for Medicare For All among all voters, not just Democratic primary voters: Recent polls show majorities of all voters – not just Democratic primary voters – support Medicare For All. These data include surveys from HarrisX (70% support), RealClear Opinion Research(65% support), Morning Consult (55% support), YouGov (52% support) and ABC News/Washington Post (52% support).
- Polling demonstrates majority support
for Medicare For All replacing private insurance: A
recent RealClear Opinion Research poll found
55%
support
Medicare
For
All
even when it is described as “a system
that will eliminate all private health insurance companies.” A recent
Morning Consult poll found
55%
support
Medicare
For
All even if it would “diminish the role of
private insurers.” A recent YouGov poll found
52%
support
a
program
that would move Americans “from private insurance
to the Medicare For All plan.” Tulchin Research polls of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania found
Medicare For All support at majority support (+20 margin) even when
voters are told that the proposal “takes away the current private
health plans of millions of people.” A Business Insider poll just
found
that
“among
all
respondents,
59% said they would support
switching their employer-based health insurance to a government plan
under Medicare for All."