Biden Campaign Money

[Invisible Man]

I keep seeing stories saying that there are a lot of restrictions on what can happen to Biden's campaign money. It appears that apparently it cannot be transferred to another candidate's campaign, but some think that it could be transferred to Harris's campaign because she was the VP candidate (supposedly--but is this even true, since the convention had not named her that yet?).

I don't want to dig deep enough into the details to figure out what the law actually is and what loopholes it has. Nor am I confident that it will actually be enforced as written.

But one thought I just had is, the money probably doesn't need to be transferred to anyone else's campaign. It can probably just be spent by the Biden campaign on ads that will have Joe Biden's approval, but just to encourage people to support Harris for President, or even someone else if Harris doesn't get the nomination.

It may not be legal for the Biden campaign organization to coordinate with the official campaign of whoever it ran ads for. But that would be no different than a SuperPAC.

Am I wrong?

 

[CaptUSA]

Am I wrong?

No. I mean, I'm sure there are some legal restrictions, but they have lawyers to get around all of that. Does anyone really think that if there's a new candidate (ahem, Michelle), that they'll somehow return all that donor money? Yeah, it will never happen.

 

[oyarde]

soros has plenty of money to blow. We can already tell exactly what states dems have in the bag and what states they have no shot at. That doesnt leave very many states to spend on

 

[oyarde]

If Dems were smart , could actually spend less money and just cover states needed and get close to same results as last time . If it is harris they narrowly lose after a bunch of cheating in tight states winning a couple. Trump needs nearly all of them.

 

[Todd]

If they can transfer votes, I'm certain they can transfer funds.