Editorial The Wall Street Journal It poured cold water on the idea that President Joe Biden would withdraw from the presidential race before officially becoming his party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.
That’s because the $100 million in the campaign committee’s account cannot be handed over to Vice President Kamala Harris or any other candidate until Trump officially becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.
Election lawyer Charlie Spiess I have written this week:
In essence, until Biden is officially nominated, his campaign is limited to donating $2,000 to the Democratic candidate, whether that new standard-bearer is Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer or Harris.
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In August 2023, the Biden presidential campaign amended its FEC Form 1 to claim on line 5 that the committee was the lead campaign committee for both Biden and Harris. At the time, no one had reason to question the ploy, and if Biden and Harris emerged as the party’s nominees at the Democratic Convention, there would be no need to challenge the premature nomination. But if Biden were to withdraw before the nomination and attempt an unprecedented, and possibly illegal, unlimited transfer of funds to Harris, the courts would likely interpret the statute’s clear language to prohibit such donations.
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If President Biden is willing to hand the baton to his vice president and wants to fund her campaign with the current Biden campaign fund, he must first become the party’s official candidate. He is free to drop out if he passes the roll call vote scheduled by the Democratic National Committee. Ms. Harris may smoothly take the lead. It’s a risky strategy because it requires maintaining an obvious fiction under the intense public scrutiny for another six weeks.
The issue of Biden currently being the “presumptive” nominee and therefore lacking legal standing is a major obstacle to Democrats’ early support for thevirtualHe announced his nomination before the convention in Chicago.
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