Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and President Joe Biden. File. Photograph credit score: AP
The Trump marketing campaign filed a grievance with the Federal Election Fee arguing that cash raised for U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election marketing campaign couldn’t be transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign.
The grievance was filed Tuesday by Trump marketing campaign normal counsel David Warrington and argues that transferring the funds to Harris’ presidential marketing campaign would quantity to a “flagrant violation” of the Federal Election Marketing campaign Act of 1971.
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“Kamala Harris is trying to perpetrate a $91.5 million theft of Joe Biden’s surplus marketing campaign money, a brazen theft that will represent the biggest extreme contribution and the biggest violation within the historical past of the Federal Election Marketing campaign Act of 1971, as amended,” Warrington stated.
Harris’ marketing campaign dismissed it as baseless. In her grievance, which was first reported by The New York Occasions, Warrington accused Biden and Harris of “flagrantly violating the Act by making and receiving an extreme contribution of almost $100 million, and of submitting fraudulent types with the Fee with the intent to repurpose one candidate’s important marketing campaign committee to be used by one other candidate.” “Kamala Harris is within the technique of committing the biggest marketing campaign finance violation in American historical past and is utilizing the Fee’s personal types to take action,” Warrington stated in her submitting.
“The Fee mustn’t and can’t sit idly by whereas one candidate takes almost $100 million from one other candidate’s approved committee, in violation of the regulation and the need of the donors who gave the cash within the first place,” he wrote.
Mr. Warrington argued that if “Kamala Harris had been to run for something in 2024, federal regulation requires that she have filed a Declaration of Candidacy and that her identify have appeared within the identify of her chartered committee. However Kamala Harris’s identify doesn’t seem within the identify of her purported chartered committee, ‘Biden for President,’ and, as of Sunday, no Declaration of Candidacy existed for her.
Harris marketing campaign spokesman Charles Kretchmer Lutvak responded to the FEC grievance in an announcement Tuesday, saying, “Republicans could also be jealous that Democrats are motivated to defeat Donald Trump and his Make America Nice Once more allies, however baseless authorized claims — like those they’ve made for years to attempt to suppress votes and steal elections — will solely distract them whereas we join volunteers, discuss to voters, and win this election.” The assertion additionally cited the marketing campaign’s fundraising efforts to this point, “elevating $100 million in our first 36 hours and registering 58,000 volunteers.” The fee is unlikely to take any motion till nicely after Election Day, given its slowness in resolving enforcement points. CNN reported.
An FEC spokesman declined to remark, citing the company’s coverage to not focus on enforcement issues, the report stated.
