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.
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.
Well there's that, too. Yup.