first day fund-raising bragging right, bernie sanders 2020 feels a lot like bernie sanders 2016. his new campaign announced today that they raised nearly $6 million in the first 24 hours since he launched, and it wasn't, you know, a few tens of thousands of donors this time. it wasn't 35,000 supporters giving that money. it was 223,000 donors giving that money. now a couple of things that are interesting about that enormous first day fund-raising number. number one, it implies that some things are carrying over from his 2016 race. he built a huge base there. they're still responding to him. also, the average donation size in this first fund-raising haul is the exact same size of the donation to bernie sanders in the 2016 cycle. people were giving an average of 27 bucks in 2016. yesterday they gave an average of 27 bucks. that means he can go back to them again and again and again and again. but also, in announcing the qualifying rules to debate in