(RepublicanView.org) – The quick acceptance within the Democratic Party of Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presumptive nominee for the November presidential election before votes have been cast is controversial. Her campaign hasn’t moved forward entirely without pushback, however. This past week, the Trump campaign filed a complaint to stop Harris’s new campaign from using $91.5 million from President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
According to a report by The New York Times, the Trump campaign filed the complaint with the Federal election Commission on Tuesday, July 23, arguing that Harris and Biden have violated campaign finance laws by installing the VP as the new candidate and wrongly sharing campaign funds that were obtained under the promise that Biden would seek re-election.
David Warrington, who serves as general counsel for the Trump campaign, described the transfer of funds as a “heist.” In the complaint, the attorney also describes the move as an “excessive contribution” to the campaign. The complaint accuses the Biden and Harris camps of engaging in the “biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971,” reminding the commission that the president has still not offered any indication that he plans to return or redesignate funding donated to him by big donors. It means, according to Trump’s lawyers, that every contribution received by the Biden for President campaign technically constitutes an “excessive contribution.”
The issue could force Team Harris to hold back on taking the money – though, Harris had already raised more than $81 million in the 24 hours after Biden announced he was stepping down. Harris has seen a historic amount of cash pour into her campaign, but she is not the official Democratic nominee yet. Delegates will vote at the beginning of next month to choose the nominee. So far, no one else has stepped forward to go up against her.
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