I loved Bernie Sanders’ “Thank you, New Hampshire!” speech last night, and I guess I’m not the only one! Bernie has raised over $7 Million (and counting) since last night’s victory.
I’ve posted the video below for those who want to watch it, either again or for the first time. It’s under 28 minutes and hits all of the key points that it used to take him over an hour to get through! Here are some excerpts:
What the people here have said is that, given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics. The people want real change.
What the American people are saying—and by the way, I hear this not just from progressives, but from conservatives and from moderates—is that we can no longer continue to have a campaign finance system in which Wall Street and the billionaire class are able to buy elections.
Americans ... Americans, no matter what their political view may be, understand that that is not what democracy is about. That is what oligarchy is about! And we will not allow that to continue.
I do not have a Super PAC, and I do not want a Super PAC!
I am overwhelmed, and I am deeply moved, far more than I can express in words, by the fact that our campaign’s financial support comes from more than 1 million Americans who have made more than 3.7 million individual contributions.
That is more individual contributions than any candidate in the history of the United States up until this point in an election.
And you know what that average contribution was? 27 dollars!
I am going to New York City tonight and tomorrow, but I am not going to New York City to hold a fundraiser on Wall Street. Instead, I’m going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America.
My request is, please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute.
Please help us raise the funds we need, whether its 10 bucks or 20 bucks or 50 bucks, help us raise the money we need to take the fight to Nevada, South Carolina, and the states on Super Tuesday.
So there it is. That's our fundraiser. Pretty quick.
^^^That’s when Bernie and his supporters managed to break ActBlue. LOL^^^
Now, I have been criticized during this campaign for many, many things. Every single day. That’s okay. That’s alright.
They’re throwing everything at me except the kitchen sink, and I have the feeling that kitchen sink is coming pretty soon as well.
But what our campaign is about, is thinking big, not small. It’s about having the courage to reject the status quo.
Bernie also speaks so movingly about his parents, and concludes:
The truth is that neither one of my parents could ever have dreamed that I would be here tonight standing before you as a candidate for president of the United States.
This is the promise of America, and this is the promise we must keep alive for future generations.
What began last week in Iowa, what voters here in New Hampshire confirmed tonight, is nothing short of the beginning of a political revolution.
It is a political revolution that will bring tens of millions of our people together. It will bring together working people who have given up on the political process. It will bring together young people who have never participated in the political process.
It will bring together Blacks and Whites, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans. Straight and gay. Male and female. People who were born in America, and people who immigrated here.
We will all come together to say loudly and clearly that the government of our great nation belongs to all of us, not just a few wealthy campaign contributors.
That is what this campaign is about. That is what the political revolution is about.
So, New Hampshire, thank you again. And now it’s on to Nevada, South Carolina, and beyond!
Thank You New Hampshire!
As y’all know, there are 14 primaries and caucuses in the next 3 weeks, and our donations will be used to run as vigorous a campaign as possible in order to generate more record-breaking turnouts.
So let's keep on helping Bernie!
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