Sanders and Warren transform how presidential campaigns are paid for

Sanders and Warren transform how presidential campaigns are paid for-politico: The latest batch of fundraising reports released this week confirmed a new reality of presidential politics: the traditional, big-dollar model of funding a presidential campaign is going the way of landlines and the VCR. With Elizabeth Warren’s announcement Friday that she had raised nearly $25 million in the last three months, slightly less than Bernie Sanders reported Tuesday, two candidates who didn’t hold traditional donor events became the top two fundraisers in Democratic primary.