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Apart from being a successful politician, Bernie Sanders also seems to be a quite successful capitalist. After the 2016 election, he signed three lucrative book deals which earned him more than $2 million. As a result, he paid off a 30-year mortgage on his Burlington, Vermont, house, which cost him $575,000. According to a new poll, among 1,115 adult respondents living in the United States, Sanders is "the best" on several issues, including immigration, healthcare, the economy, the environment, and jobs.
After they left the White House, the former vice president and his wife, Jill, earned more than $15 million, from a multi-book deal with publisher Flatiron. They then bought a 4,800-square-foot pad in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for $2.7 million in 2017. What's more, they paid off a mortgage on the other house in Delaware in 2018. The couple is firmly in the upper class now.
Before becoming a politician, Elizabeth Warren was a law teacher. In 1996, she was the highest-paid professor (who was not a dean), at Harvard University, with a $181,300 salary and total compensation of $291,876. Her husband, Bruce Mann, is also a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. The couple earned a small fortune through years of teaching, writing and consulting. They purchased their house in Cambridge, Massachusetts for $447,000. This might be their best investment.
Our former handsome Texas congressman married a rich wife, Amy Hoover Sanders, who is the daughter of an El Paso real estate tycoon, William Sanders. However, the couple only has a small chunk of that huge wealth. According to a campaign spokesperson, their largest asset is a note, worth $2.5 million, held by Amy. As for Beto O'Rourke, he owns a minority interest in a $2.5 million El Paso strip mall, which he got from his mother.
Kamala Harris' husband Douglas Emhoff is a powerful entertainment lawyer. Before Harris' political career, she was also a lawyer who specialized in child sexual abuse trials. The couple got married in 2014. Since then, they have accumulated a net worth of $8.2 million, most of which is from Emhoff's work at law firms Venable and DLA Piper. Harris and Emhoff bought houses in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, worth $5.8 million in total.
After Cory Booker arrived in Washington in 2013, he became the first African-American U.S. Senator from New Jersey, and he is also the first African-American Senator since Barack Obama in 2004. He then sold all the stocks he owned in companies like Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon within a year of taking office. Currently, Booker's fortune includes a 2,800-square-foot house in Newark and a New Jersey state pension.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand married her British husband Jonathan in 2001. She earns $174,000 annually for serving in the senate, thus making her the breadwinner. As for Jonathan, he worked as a consultant and investor between 2007 and 2018, and earnt just $185,000. Gillibrand's portfolio includes a $350,000 home in Troy, New York, and her federal pension, which is worth an estimated $450,000.
According to documents Tulsi Gabbard filed with the government, she invested about $2,000 or $30,000 in the cryptocurrency craze in 2017. But, she had washed her hands of those investments by the time she turned in her financial disclosure report in July 2019. Her main asset is her $865,000 house in Washington, D.C..
We have to say that Pete Buttigieg is clearly the poorest 2020 candidate. But, after all, he is the youngest candidate with the age of only 37. In 2010, he gave up a high-paid McKinsey job to run for treasurer of his home state of Indiana. Though Buttigieg lost, two years later, he got a six-figure salary as mayor of South Bend. His husband, Chasten Buttigieg, was a teacher. The couple disclosed the amount of their student loan debt, between $100,000 and $230,000.
According to the latest reports, although our Mr. President and No. 1 political superstar is rich enough to fund himself to run the 2020 presidential campaign, he has donated precisely $0 to himself. The truth is, donors across the country have already donated enough money to show their support.
Though mayor Bill de Blasio has devoted himself to a public service career for most of his life, he still hopes to be the occupant of the White House like all the others. Most of his fortune comes from timely investments in New York City real estate. Back in 2000, de Blasio and his wife purchased a 1,200-square-foot row house on a Brooklyn block. Four years later, the couple got a 1,600-square-footer just down the road. They then sat back and watched real estate values skyrocket. By renting out the two properties, the couple earned a cool $108,450 last year.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang is the son of Taiwanese immigrants. After he quit a corporate law job, he started up his business by co-founding Stargiving.com, a website that offers opportunities for charitable donors to meet celebrities. After the website folded, he worked here and there. In 2006, he became the CEO of a test prep company, Manhattan Prep. Before giant Kaplan bought it in 2009 for tens of millions, Yang boosted the revenue of the company to $11 million.
Author and politician Marianne Williamson did earn a fortune through writing books. However, she doesn't seem to hold onto her money that well. She has money market accounts, mutual funds, cash accounts, as well as publicly-traded stocks like Home Depot, Apple, and VF Corp. In April 2019, she just released her latest book, A Politics of Love. So, it seems that Williamson just wants to make even more money through her campaign.
Since 1988, Governor Jay Inslee started to bounce back and forth between the Washington state government and the federal government. This brought him an estimated $68,000 per year for life in state and federal pensions. The income stream would be around $750,000 in all. He purchased a $1 million house outside Seattle with five bedrooms.
Born in 1973, Tim Ryan was elected to the House of Representatives when he was 29 years old. He has been earning a congressional salary for many years. According to Ryan's financial disclosure report, he married a public school teacher in 2013, who is still paying off her student loans.
In 1986, Tom Steyer founded Farallon Capital, and it became one of the largest hedge fund firms in the US. So, money won't be a problem for Steyer. In 2012, he took a step back and concentrated on politics and philanthropy. He used his money to protect the environment. In consideration of his previous investments in the fossil-fuel industry, many people might feel it a bit odd. As for Steyer, he thought by getting rid of his old fossil-fuel holdings it showed a change of heart.
Former prosecutor Amy Klobuchar has been working for the U.S. Senate for 12 years. Her portfolio includes a federal pension worth an estimated $560,000. Klobuchar's husband, John Bessler, is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
The former Representative's fortune came from his business before serving in Congress. In 1993, Delaney established HealthCare Financial Partners. Another candidate we mentioned above, Tom Steyer, was one of the major backers. In 1996, Delaney took his company public and earned $30 million when he sold it to Heller Financial. Then he raised $542 million to fund the launch his second company, CapitalSource.
After his graduation from Yale, Michael Bennet worked as Counsel to the U.S. Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton Administration. In 1997, he left the Justice Department to join the Anschutz Investment Company. There, Bennet earned his fortune, through hedge fund holdings and Colorado real estate.
In 1974, Joe Sestak graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy as the second-best in his class. Thirty years later, he retired as a three-star admiral. For all these years' service, he earns an estimated $120,000 annually. In total, it is worth almost $1.5 million. His portfolio includes at least $100,000 in Amazon shares and more than $15,000 of Apple stock.
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