"I want to be clear: It is very important that our movement holds public officials accountable," Sanders wrote. | Getty Sanders asks supporters to back 4 Democratic candidates

Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted four Democratic Senate candidates for his followers to support in a new fundraising email on Monday.

Sanders, through his Friends of Bernie Sanders email list, asked supporters to donate $2.70 to help Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.


"I want to be clear: It is very important that our movement holds public officials accountable. The Democratic Party passed an extremely progressive agenda at the convention. Our job is to make sure that platform is implemented. That will not happen without Democratic control of the Senate," Sanders wrote in the email, with the subject line "Winning the Senate."

Sanders had already raised funds for and endorsed former Sen. Russ Feingold in Wisconsin.

But the email also did not include a number of candidates in competitive Senate races elsewhere.

Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy, Indiana Senate candidate Evan Bayh, Illinois Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth, North Carolina Senate candidate Deborah Ross and Iowa Senate candidate Patty Judge all were left off the list.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has also previously asked Sanders to use his fundraising list to help Judge and Ross in particular.