Not sure if you guys watched the interview Kamala had on Fox News. Why did she agree to that? Is she that delusional?
Is the leftist bubble that strong that she did not expect questions on immigration or economy?
There was a part where she said the experts agree that her economic plan will increase economy unlike Trump and she did not expect to be asked what she did for the past 3.5 years if she can save the economy.
She then became unstable and full TDS crazy.
She isn't a completely mindless puppet. She's just a bit of an idiot.
She and Willie Brown out-maneuvered Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, and Clinton. The stolen Trump policies and pandering are all signature moves of Willie Brown. Biden was looking worse and worse before the debate, and Nancy was actually looking to push him out and get someone else in. Nancy wanted Shapiro, Obama's surrogate we're not clear about, and Clinton didn't mind Harris. Harris helped Pelosi push Biden out, then immediately betrayed Nancy and took over the Biden-Harris political organization to seize the funds and declare victory. Harris stole the candidacy while Obama was getting his shoes on, and Nancy thought they could have a competitive primary. But Harris fucked all of them over.
Remember, this woman is an evil prosecutor that likes to keep innocent people in prison, and sell her allied companies prison labor for kick-backs. She's a bit of an idiot, but with Willie Brown at her side, she's a bit of a ruthless actor. It's Willie who wants the white house. Biden, Nancy, and Pelosi were all left out to dry.
Problem is, this effort is too big of a challenge for any of them, let alone Willie Brown's cocksleve.
I think it's more straightforward than you do. As they were pushing Biden out, they realized that the sizable campaignb warchest would evaporate unless they kept Kamala as the option (and even then they weren't 100% sure).
However, I also think that much of the palace intrigues and infighting we're seeing also relates to how that money is spent and flows out of Kamala's grasp. Joe and Jill, in addition to being pissed about having that warchest taken from them, want to see Joe's legacy as being "the only person to ever beat Trump." Hence the sabotage there. I also think the Clintons have been snubbed in this, with respect to the money, so there may be some sabotage going on there too.
I don't understand the actual logistics behind the Biden/Harris campaign donations having to be returned.
I've never heard of anyone receiving a refund on a political donation. AFAIK, you don't get refunded even if the candidate steps down.
Is the idea that some of the campaign donations are still only pledges that haven't been collected?
Does it have something to do with suped PACs that may only release money on a discretionary basis?
I understand the legal argument that funds donated to Biden/Harris should only be donated to their campaign. But I'm sure the DNC could figure out some creative accounting to shuffle money around rather than return it.
Or is it a case of dead money where the money doesn't get returned but can only be used to pay off Biden/ Harris debts rather than be used by another frontrunner on new spending?
The long and short of it is that Kamala was part of the same campaign committee as Joe, with respect to the donations that had been made. There was around $250 million from donations at the time. Because they shared the same committee, it was highly likely that there would be no complications in transferring funds to her as the new Presidential candidate.
For anyone else to become the new candidate, however, Biden would have to offer donors the option for refunds (which the Dems absolutely did not want since they knew it would leak away massive amounts of that warchest). The remainder could still end up going to the DNC, but only a fractional portion of that could then be sent back to a new candidate. That would still have been relatively sizable, like 30 or 40 million, but not near the quarter-billion Biden had built up.
This also doesn't touch on PACs which had hundreds of millions generated for Biden, but that may not have been therefore usable for a new non-Harris candidate. I think some of these still faced complications even with Harris.
Regardless, the huge held-breath pause that the Democrats seemed to take as it became clear Biden was being forced out was because of the internal maneuverings regarding the campaign funds and how they could keep their hands on it all.
Also, ActBlue is a criminal money laundering organization, so it would’ve been more impossible to “return” money.