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Bernie Sanders Spends Over $2 Million on First TV Ad

The Bernie Sanders' campaign will start airing television advertisements on Tuesday for the first time.

Bernie Sanders Spending $2 MillIon on First TV Ad

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By Shawna Thomas

This Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign will start running their first television ads.

It’s a minute-long spot introducing Sanders, I-Vt., to potential Democrat primary voters. It starts by telling viewers he’s the "son of a Polish immigrant, who grew up in a Brooklyn tenement."

The commercial then points out his work in Congress and that his campaign is “funded by over a million contributions."

The campaign says the ad buy is over $2 million. It will run in Iowa and New Hampshire to start and then they expect to take it to other states.

According to the latest FEC report, the Sanders' campaign raised $26.2 million in the third quarter, and as of the middle of October, had $27.1 million in the bank.

Here's the full ad:

Shawna Thomas

Shawna is a Senior Producer of "Meet the Press" and also works on expanding the show to multiple NBC News and social media platforms.  Before that she was one of NBC News' White House producers, reported on Congress and helped plan NBC's coverage of the 2008 presidential election.

She has a degree in political communication from the George Washington University and a graduate degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.