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Bernie Sanders won the race for Democratic donors in 2019

Where candidates earned the virtually donors

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Sanders

Sanders

Warren

Warren

Biden

Biden

Buttigieg

Buttigieg

Klobuchar

Klobuchar

Using campaign finance records, nosotros took a look at about every Democratic donor who gave to a presidential campaign in 2019. And for the first time, we were able to compare the country of the Democratic presidential field's online pocket-size-dollar fundraising with President Trump's, using data from the two platforms that process such donations: ActBlue for Democrats and WinRed for Republicans.

Autonomous candidates tended to draw the virtually donor support from their home states, simply the U.S. senator from Vermont built a sprawling donor base from coast to coast.

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What type of donors did each candidate attract?

Income and demographics information tell united states of america which Democratic candidates had the greatest appeal to sure communities of donors. For example, donors in the highest-income neighborhoods preferred Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), erstwhile Due south Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg and quondam vice president Joe Biden, according to an analysis of census and entrada finance data.

The racial breakup of donors per candidate provides a glimpse of each candidate's entreatment to diverse communities. For example, just 79 percentage of Yang's donors came from Zip codes that had more than white people than any other candidate — the smallest share of any candidate.

More than 90 percent of the donors who gave to the campaign of Amy Klobuchar, who has also seen her fortunes rise in contempo weeks, came from white neighborhoods.

Sanders congenital the most loyal donor base throughout 2019

Donors played a large role in the Democratic presidential primaries throughout 2019, particularly in helping candidates accomplish donor thresholds to authorize to compete on the national debate stage. Sanders's donor base spiked in the final quarter of 2019, when he garnered hundreds of thousands of new donors — a remarkable political revival for the candidate, who had a irksome summer and whose middle attack in October raised doubts about how long he would remain in the race.

Sanders too drew considerable support from donors to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), who shares Sanders's anti-establishment posture and who pointedly endorsed Sanders over Hillary Clinton during the 2016 primaries.

Trump vs. Democrats

Trump has reshaped the Republican donor base with his sustained appeal to online donors. In the last six months of 2019, nearly 737,000 donors gave online to Trump, the Republican National Commission and two affiliated fundraising committees.

Michelle Ye Hee Lee

Michelle Ye Hee Lee is a reporter on The Washington Post's national political enterprise and accountability squad, covering money and influence in politics.

Kevin Schaul

Kevin Schaul is a senior graphics editor for The Washington Post. He covers national politics and public policy using data and visuals.

Reuben Fischer-Baum

Reuben Fischer-Baum is an assignment editor on the graphics team of The Washington Post. He previously worked at FiveThirtyEight and Deadspin. He joined The Post in 2017.

Anu Narayanswamy

Anu Narayanswamy is the data reporter for the national political enterprise and accountability squad at The Washington Postal service, with a focus on coin and politics.

Jason Holt, Ted Mellnik, Shelly Tan and Armand Emamdjomeh contributed to this report.

About this story

This assay is based on a combination of data from the Federal Ballot Commission and the U.S. Census Bureau. This data does not include donations $200 or less that were made straight to the campaign.

Unique donor estimates were created based on a combination of donor proper noun and Zip code. Donor overlap was computed among the remaining major Autonomous candidates. Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg is excluded from this analysis considering he is not accepting donations.

Income and race figures are from the 2018 American Community Survey 5-yr estimates.