Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly been making moves to secure President Joe Biden’s campaign war chest for her own election bid.
While all the attention on the Democratic election ticket seems to have been fixed on Gov. Tim Walz and his record, the party’s presidential nominee has made some “irregular” filings in the last few days.
According to lawyer Laura Powell, Harris filed an updated Statement of Candidacy after choosing Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and used Biden’s personal candidate ID number instead of her own.
Get this: looks like Kamala is using Biden’s FEC candidate number so she can steal his campaign war chest, which appears to be highly illegal but won’t be stopped cuz the establishment decides what’s legal & illegal and it will choose to ignore her law breaking just like it did… https://t.co/Rcn67sn97r
— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) August 8, 2024
“Her newly filed Form 2 shows up on Biden’s personal FEC page. But if you look at the 2024 election cycle, Biden is erased and replaced with Harris, as if he was never never running for President,” Powell noted in a post on X.
“Looking at Biden’s campaign committee’s FEC record, it’s now associated with both Biden’s and Harris’s candidacies for President for the period of 2020-2022. But that makes no sense, because Harris’s Presidential run in 2020 was never linked to Biden’s, and she ceased her campaign for President in 2020 and did not run again until 2024,” Powell continued.
“Now Harris’s personal FEC candidate ID number (P00009423)—which is supposed to follow her for all Presidential campaigns for life—is somehow linked to Biden’s Presidential campaign in 2020,” she wrote.
The attorney went on to note how the 2023-2024 FEC record for “Biden for President” which is now “Harris for President,” is linked to two presidential candidates – both with the name “Kamala Harris.”
“One of these candidates is associated with Harris’s candidate ID number (P00009423), and the other ‘Kamala Harris’ is associated with Biden’s candidate ID number (P80000722),” the post continued.
Trump’s lawyers filed a complaint with the FEC, but everyone knows it won’t be resolved any time soon. It sounds like there is no one with the authority to take action, assuming this is as illegal as it appears.
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024
“Confused? That’s because these filings from Harris are irregular. If Kamala Harris had used her own candidate ID number, like every other candidate in modern history, this wouldn’t have been so complicated, but then it would have been difficult to make the case that she’s entitled to Biden’s war chest,” Powell noted. “Undoubtedly, these filings are trying to circumvent those pesky campaign finance laws.”
With a creative prosecutor, there’s no limit to the number of felonies you can come up with!
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024
In another potential scenario, Powell pointed out that since Harris “felt entitled to file an amended Statement of Candidacy using Biden’s personal candidate ID number because she was the Vice Presidential candidate, Walz could do the same.”
“The Democrats could pass this campaign down in perpetuity, without even obtaining the formal agreement of the prior candidate,” she wrote. “This reminds me of a system of government that isn’t considered anything like a democracy.”
After melting down over the alleged threat to democracy from former President Donald Trump, Democrats should be looking in the mirror.
They have been challenged, but everyone says the FEC will not resolve the matter in time for the election, so it’s a shrug of the shoulders.
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024
There is no law dictating anything about the FEC candidate numbers, as far as I know. But I think it’s easier to see there are shenanigans with the filing numbers to clue in to how something shady is happening here, instead of analyzing campaign finance law.
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024
As far as the FEC is concerned, he is still running. If he decided to reclaim his campaign from Harris, I don’t know how the FEC would handle that, since they been playing along with these filings from Harris. Biden is required by law to take steps to terminate his campaign…
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024
Assuming that this is as illegal as it appears, who do you think is powerful enough to stop them? Complaints have been filed by the Trump campaign and Citizens United. This level of apparent corruption is bigger than them, and certainly bigger than me.
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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