WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ campaign is raising money off Joe Biden’s announcement that he is entering the 2020 Democratic presidential race.
In an email with the subject line “Joe Biden,” Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir called Thursday “an important moment to show that we are the ones who can beat Trump and transform this country.”
Shakir says that while there are many candidates running for president, “there is only one Bernie Sanders.”
Sanders is so far Biden’s leading rival in the race for the Democratic nomination, and the senator from Vermont was able to generate more than $6 million in his campaign’s first 24 hours, as did former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke. Their big first 24-hour fundraising hauls will be the metric against which Biden’s first day total will be measured.
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