2020, one of the ways the democratic party decided that this year a candidate can qualify to make the debate stage is by pulling in a lot of grassroots donations, pulling in donations from at least 65,000 different people in at least 20 states. bernie sanders appears to have already done that and more, not just on his first day, but in the first few hours of his first day. so he at least knows that he ll be on the stage already. here we go. bernie sanders is back doing record breaking grassroots fund-raising again and already, but that is not the only echo of 2016 we are seeing right now as the democratic primary gets under way in earnest, as democratic candidates are starting to roll out their campaigns. there is another shadow campaign that is definitely already under way, and that story is next. t. hoo
a tweet and we now have the tweet from elizabeth warren. she said one thing i know i can t do this alone. powered by $1.8 million in grass roots donations. this is not my fight. it s our fight. join us now. i start with you. you want to talk about getting benefits on the staff side. what s your view of getting in now? i think the surprise challenge is on the messaging side. this gives her potentially a little bit of time to kind of have a reset on the message after attempts to clear the air on her heritage backfired. if you get in before it s ultra crowded, you get time to feel your way around. that s part of the challenge that she faces. there will be dozens of democratic candidates and the cluster of people who we heard from a lot who were candidates
resourced, they are successful. so in that sense i don t see our race as an outlier or that much of an anomaly. and again i hope we have ushered in a new paradigm shift. we did not accept corporate pac money. we raised a million dollars in grassroots donations. we built a people-powered army and movement of 1,000 foot soldiers. we invested in digital media. we made it a point to register and to engage the assumed unlikely voters. and so i hope we ve ushered in a new paradigm shift. we weren t even on tv except for ethnic and specialty media. ayanna pressley, thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. we wish we could have had you primary night, but again we re glad you re here. ples come back. best of luck. thank you so much. absolutely. when we come back, how one career diplomat is standing up to president trump by walking away. i m going to talk to the former u.s. ambassador to vietnam about
all the data supports that when women run and they are well resourced, they are successful. so in that sense i don t see our race as an outlier or that much of an anomaly. and again i hope we have ushered in a new paradigm shift. we did not accept corporate pac money. we raised $1 million in grassroots donations. we built a people-powered army and movement of 1,000 foot soldiers. we invested in digital media. we made it a point to register and to engage the assumed unlikely voters. and so i hope we ve ushered in a new paradigm shift. we weren t even on tv except for ethnic and specialty media. telemun dough and univision. ayanna pressley, thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. we wish we could have had you primary night, but again we re glad you re here. please come back. best of luck. thank you so much. absolutely. when we come back, how one career diplomat is standing up to president trump by walking away. i m going to talk to the former
virginia gubernatorial candidate tom periello what he spotlights as the gop effort to crush affordable health care. i m tom periello and in congress i voted for obamacare because it was wrong that a million virginians weren t covered while insurance companies held all the power. at the website 538, nate silver writes the health care bill could be a job killer for gop incumbents because if republican members should suffer a similar penalty for voting for the acha has democrats it for obamacare somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 points, it could be dozens of gop held seats in play. then there s the energy this vote has generated on the left. today a coalition of resistance groups said that in just one day, they received 45,000 grassroots donations to the tune of more than $2 million raised for the eventual democratic challengers to house republicans who voted to repeal obamacare. at the white house today, deputy press secretary sarah huck aby