Bernie Sanders' campaign said the average contribution in April was smaller than $26 and just 3 percent came from donations that maxed out at $2,700. | AP Photo Sanders raised over $25 million in April, a steep drop from March

Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign raised $25.8 million in April, a notable decline from a month earlier, when he raised $44 million.

The Sanders campaign reported the latest fundraising haul on Sunday, noting that it surpassed "the campaign's average monthly total of $17 million."


Still, what was far more conspicuous was the decline in the most recent fundraising numbers from a month earlier. The newest fundraising numbers come just a few days after, as first reported by POLITICO, the Sanders campaign made staff cuts across his campaign apparatus.

Sanders' campaign also noted that, in total, it had raised $210 million off of 2.4 million donors.

The campaign said the average contribution in April was smaller than $26 and that just 3 percent came from donations that maxed out at $2,700. Sanders' campaign has long prided itself in being able to raise large sums of money from small donations.

"What our campaign is doing is bringing millions of Americans into the political process," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement.

"Sanders is the candidate with the most energy and excitement. He is the candidate with the best chance of winning in November. He is the candidate who is in the best position to bring a new generation of voters into the democratic process and restore the faith of working-class voters that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.”