“Luckily for the Trumps, Some Laws Are Hard to Break; There’s a reason Mueller shied away from prosecuting Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. “
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for The Atlantic.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“How the IRS Gave Up Fighting Political Dark Money Groups”
ProPublica has this report, with the subhead: “Six years after it was excoriated for allegedly targeting conservative organizations, the agency has largely given up on regulating an entire category of nonprofits. The result: More dark money gushes into the political… Continue reading
FEC Asks North Carolina Republican Party If It Spent Too Much in Coordinated Spending Supporting Mark Meadows for Congress
“Kamala Harris takes early lead in the big-money race”
Politico:
Hundreds of the biggest Democratic fundraisers in the past two presidential elections are already picking candidates for 2020 — and Kamala Harris has a significant early edge, while Pete Buttigieg and his from-scratch campaign has scrambled into the… Continue reading
“The footnote in Barr’s Mueller report letter we need to pay attention to”
Larry Noble for CNN Opinion:
Since there are only two footnotes in the letter and this is the only substantive footnote, one can assume Barr thinks the legal definition of “coordination” used is significant. He is right.The question of whether… Continue reading
Why Democrats are Falling All Over Themselves to Find Small-Dollar Donors
Carrie Levine for CPI/538:
But the time and energy going into cultivating a grassroots donor base early in the election cycle also carries clear benefits for the party and its eventual nominee — namely, a potentially massive pool of proven… Continue reading
“Wall Street critic Waters rakes in corporate campaign money”
Politico:
Rep. Maxine Waters is embracing corporate campaign contributions as the new chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, even as some progressive Democrats have sworn off fundraising from businesses.The California Democrat’s campaign received about $210,329 in contributions during… Continue reading
“Trump and Sanders Campaigns Lead 2020 Fund-Raising Race”
NYT:
The two presidential candidates who entered 2019 with the largest bases of supporters — President Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont — led the 2020 field in fund-raising in the first quarter of the year.Presidential candidates were under… Continue reading
“Trump’s 2020 plan: Target seniors on Facebook”
Axios:
The Trump campaign is spending nearly half (44%) of its Facebook ad budget to target users who are over 65 years old, as opposed to Democratic candidates who are only spending 27% of their budget on that demographic, according… Continue reading
“Trump’s Campaign Machine Has Two-Year Head Start”
WSJ:
Before any well-known Democrats even began their White House bids, President Trump’s re-election team had spent more than $83 million on rallies, fundraising and other expenses associated with the thick of a heated race.Mr. Trump set up his 2020 … Continue reading
“Early fundraising by 2020 Democrats shows they are in for a long, drawn-out fight”
WaPo:
The limited early fundraising hauls announced by Democratic presidential hopefuls show that no clear front-runner has yet emerged in the race, and portend a drawn-out and divisive primary slog before the party unifies against President Trump.The overall sum… Continue reading
D.C. Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Upholds FEC Donor Disclosure in John Doe v. FEC Case
You can find the majority and partially dissenting opinion at this link.
“Broad cross-partisan coalition urges presidential candidates to disclose their big-money campaign fundraisers”
Issue One:
Issue One was joined today by 15 other organizations from across the ideological spectrum in urging all Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to publicly disclose information about their campaign top fundraisers on a regular basis during the 2020… Continue reading