she went all the way to vashon, washington.ders' most dedicated donor base. >> bernie sanders is running well behind hillary clinton. >> and i have 2.5 million more votes than bernie sanders. >> reporter: losing candidates usually run out of money and drop out, but not bernie. >> we have received now over 6 million individual campaign contributions. >> reporter: sanders' insurgent campaign is keeping pace with the clinton fund-raising juggernaut, without holding a single closed-door high-dollar fund-raiser. >> anyone know what the average contribution is? >> reporter: so who are the 2 million people who have helped keep sanders' white house hopes alive? dozens of them live on vashon, a tiny island off the coast of seattle, and the place that gives sanders more money per capita than anywhere in america. >> i think the reason why people are into bernie sanders around here is the same reason why there's no starbucks. >> is that hippie tendencies? >> yeah. i don't know if you've ever heard us referred to as weed island. >> reporter

it's called vashon island in the same neighborhood as -- >> beautiful area. >> much different culturet people there say, you know what, i wanted to buy into a little piece of this. a lot of them give every month. it gouz out of their bank accounts on a regular basis. and when they make an ask that says, hey, we want to make this goal, they'll chip in a little bit more. that's what happened yesterday, so they were able to make a fund-raising record in march. >> i think you make such an insightful point. when people say, the donors won't keep giving because of the momentum, what they're actually saying is the washington insider type donors, or other bundlers aren't giving anymore, because those people are giving to get something, whereas grassroots donors tend to say, they're giving to do something. they want to communicate through it, which is, actually, as conservative point in the sense that a lot of supreme court law talks about money as speech. people want to speak through their money for that support. we're almost out of time. real quick. >> they feel like they can't. they don't h