(ReliableNews.org) – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ reelection campaigns raised tens of millions of dollars. The POTUS will reportedly transfer that money to Harris if she becomes the Democratic nominee. Former President Donald Trump is trying to stop that from happening.
On July 23, Trump’s campaign filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint to prevent Biden from transferring $91 million in fundraising cash to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. The president endorsed his vice president to take over for him on July 21. In the complaint, the Trump campaign argued that Harris was trying to “perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar [sic] heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash.”
Attorney David Warrington, the Trump campaign’s general counsel, said the act was a “brazen money grab” that would amount to the “biggest violation” in the FEC’s history. The filing said Harris was “committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history,” and she was using the FEC’s forms to carry it out. Warrington demanded the committee stop it from happening.
Charles Kretchmer Lutvak, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, accused the GOP of being “jealous” the Democratic Party was “energized to defeat” Trump and called the allegations “baseless.” He said the VP’s campaign has already raised $100 million and signed up nearly 60,000 volunteers.
Campaign finance expert David Schultz spoke to Newsweek about the FEC complaint. He said the Biden campaign wouldn’t break any rules if it transferred the money to Harris because she is “entitled” to use it. He explained that the current law allows her to use the funds since the Biden-Harris campaign raised it together. Furthermore, he said they wouldn’t have to wait for an official nomination from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Rick Hansen, a UCLA law school election law expert, told CNN that Trump’s campaign’s complaint wasn’t the “best reading of the law” but warned the issue could be tied up for years because of the FEC’s slow nature.
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