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Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist who gained a national following when he challenged Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, raised $3.3 million on Tuesday from 120,000 individual donors in the first 10 hours after announcing another White House run, the Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

By end of day, Sanders raised more than $4 million from almost 150,000 individual donors, making him by far the top fundraiser among Democratic contenders on day one of their presidential bids.

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The Vermont independent, who again will seek to become the Democratic Party nominee, surpassed by more than double the $1.5 million that Senator Kamala Harris raised from roughly 38,000 donors in the first 24 hours of her Jan. 21 presidential campaign launch. The California Democrat had been the biggest first-day fundraiser in the race so far.

Sanders, 77, upended the Democratic establishment three years ago by siphoning support from the party’s liberal wing and young people, touching off a leftist movement that ushered progressives like freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into office in the November midterm elections.