Bernie Sanders: “Musk himself contributed. What was it, $270 million.”

“Yeah. Okay. And to be honest with you, I don't know how you change things fundamentally when you have people like Musk. Not just Musk. Musk himself contributed. What was it, $270 million. One person, you know, I ran for President of the United States. We raised hundreds of millions of dollars. You know what the average contribution was? In one case, it was $27.” (17:21–17:26)

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