me of the trajectory of this, we saw this in 2004 where the howard dean campaign kind of figured out how to raise money through small donors online. that was expanded by the obama campaign which was able to do it at the big level and small level. now you have bernie sanders doing it. but all of these reports, if we want to show that graph again about the fund-raising, the bar chart, right? that doesn t count superpac money. hillary clinton has a superpack and jeb bush and marco rubio has a superpack. bernie sanders doesn t have a superpac. that s all he s got, the 26 million is all he s got coming in whereas the other candidates, that s where the big money is coming and that s where the unrestricted donations are coming. that s because the supreme court in citizens united somehow decided that it was not corrupting of our democracy. chris, democracy is supposed to be a system where our government is responsive to each of us as political equals, as equal citizens. and yet when you re h
on the jeb bush campaign? i thought from the beginning the jeb bush campaign had nothing behind it. the whole rationale was inevitability. we ve seen a demonstration project here that money is not determinative in politics. there s nobody out there saying i m a bush conservative, damn it. that doesn t exist. it was just that i m going to outspend everyone and make myself look inevitable. he right now has lost to ben carson in every poll for two months. 50% of republican voters, 50, have been behind the combination of trump, fiorina, and carson for two months. there is no establishment. long live the establishment. betsy, here s to me the bullish case, none of that hard none of those hard dollars count the superpac. superpac donors, he s got a huge well-funded superpac. superpac donors can ride in at any time with a million-dollar check. and we all remember like john mccain was basically down to his last ten cents in 2008. and ended up coming back. so what s your feeling?
determine public policy outcomes. we need a system where small donors can actually drive a candidate to success, where money and politics is not a barrier. it s terrific that sanders is doing this. we need actual policy reform that create this incentive. and we need to hear from the candidates what they re going to do to demand that kind of change. we should note donald trump raised 3 million in the quarter even though he s self-funding. 3.9 million in the quarter. that was largely small donations. so grassroots support abounds. liz kennedy, thank you very much. my pleasure. still to come, why donald trum. and ben carson are threatening to boycott the next republican debate. that s ahead. when you re not confident your company s data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that s where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic
i think it s absolutely exciting bernie sanders has been able to generate this kind of grassroots enthusiasm and that is translating into so many people coming involved as small donors in his campaign. i think it does speak to people resounding to his primary issue of inequality in our country and not just the economic inequality he talks about but the political inequality we see with the donor class playing sucha an outsize role in setting the public policy outcomes. it s fascinating. here you have this merging of form and content. he s walking the walk. he talks about billionaires and millionaires. people are trying to give him guff about these hard money fund-raising events. in follywood michael brid says the spokesperson these are not particularly high dollar, we re not signature around in rooms talking to very wealthy people. from his staff today, 77% of money raised by sanders came from gifts of $200 or less.
i don t know how you spin that. i mean, you can fly cheap airlines everywhere. you can feed your staff mcdonald s dollar menu. i don t know how you tell your donors this makes sense, money is helping us out and moving the needle. it s tough. it doesn t look good. you re right. i think that number is the most damning. you pour this advertising in, it doesn t do anything. meanwhile, this is my favorite campaign story of the day. ben carson, a man who i think it s safe to say a lot of people did not anticipate to be doing as well as he is, a man who s never held elected office although incredibly distinguished career as a neurosurgeon was just like hey, peace out, i m going to go on my book tour for two weeks. like what is going on? i think this is a bit of a nothing burger story on the part of abc which first broadcast this. campaign books, in fact, you talk about john mccain, when his campaign was dead, and i was flogging a book on mccain at the time, in july of 2007, what did he do