Bernie Sanders raked in $10 million in donations less than a week after announcing his 2020 presidential bid

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• Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $6 million in the 24 hours after joining the 2020 presidential race.
• Just 10 hours after the announcement, Sanders had already raised more than $4 million from nearly 150,000 individual donors, the campaign said in an email.
• Less than a week after announcing, Sanders is estimated to have collected $10 million from nearly 360,000 donors, campaign officials said to the New York Times.
• Faiz Shakir, Sanders' campaign manager, said in an email to INSIDER that the numbers were "YUGE."
• Sanders' figures set a new record for first-day donations in the 2020 race.
• Sen. Kamala Harris, another 2020 Democratic candidate, previously held the title after raising $1.5 million from 38,000 donors within the first day of her campaign, Politico reported in January.

Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign raised about $6 million in the 24 hours after the Vermont senator joined the 2020 presidential race. Less than a week later, campaign officials said they raised $10 million from nearly 360,000 donors, according to a New York Times report published Monday. 

The initial $6 million came from roughly 225,000 donors with an average donation of $27, Sanders tweeted.

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