Former President Donald Trump and his attorneys filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, arguing that Vice President Kamala Harris cannot legally access funds raised for President Joe Biden without violating campaign finance law. According to FEC regulations, candidates must create campaign committees to raise money on their behalf, and then file to designate the committee as their fundraising vehicle. Harris, who has taken over the Democratic ticket after Biden bowed out, has skipped these steps and merely swapped out Biden’s name for her own on existing documents.
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“This is little more than a thinly veiled $91.5 million excessive contribution from one presidential candidate to another, that is, from Joe Biden’s old campaign to Kamala Harris’s new campaign,” Trump general counsel David A. Warrington wrote in the complaint. “Contributions by federal candidate committees to other federal candidates are limited to $2,000.”
Campaign finance experts have largely agreed that Harris can access Biden’s massive campaign war chest because she was previously registered as the president’s running mate on the same ticket. However, as Trump’s attorneys argue, neither Biden nor Harris have been confirmed as the Democratic nominee, meaning they cannot share the same campaign committee.
“Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history,” the Trump campaign continued, “and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it.”
Connor Walcott is a staff writer for Valuetainment.com. Follow Connor on X and look for him on VT’s “The Unusual Suspects.”
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