Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's Nerdcast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week on the nerd cast Bernie Sanders enters the 2020 presidential fray.

Will everything he built in his 2016 campaign follow him to this new one? Plus Donald Trump's re-election campaign seems to be in full swing. We've got some interesting

details on what's going on there on the other side of the 2020 aisle.

As always we're taping this a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday.

Today, that's February the 21st, so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started. I want to welcome our guests.

We've got Nurdcast regular Charlie Matessian, senior politics editor at

Politico. Hi Charlie, hi Scott. We've got two members of our 2020 team here on the

line from Chicago. We've got Natasha Kerecki. Hi Natasha.

Hi Natasha. And in the studio for the first time, Holly Audubine.

Hey Scott, how you doing?

Good to be here.

Welcome.

All right, let's jump right into our first data point this week.

It's 5.9 million.

And that's 5.9 million dollars that Bernie Sanders raised in 24 hours

after announcing his presidential run. That's the most by far that we've seen from

any candidate so far. That money came from 220,000 people, which works out to an

average of, you guessed it, about 27 bucks a piece, the familiar number from

Sanders 2016 campaign. So Holly start us off here with Bernie Sanders. He's been traveling the

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