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What would happen if a US presidential candidate used campaign cash for government purposes?
Trump raises over $20 million in February with nearly $42 million in cash on hand, far behind Biden and Democrats
US presidential candidates regularly spend millions of dollars every election to win ...
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Why are Lee Mercer and John Anthony Castro the highest-fundraising candidates for the 2024 U.S. Presidential election?
According to the U.S. Federal Election Commission's website, as of July 10, 2023 the two candidates for U.S. President who have raised the most money are Lee Mercer (D), at $192 million, and John ...
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Why would being "almost the end of the second quarter for fundraising" be a reason for US presidential candidates not being "out there quite as much"?
In CNN's June 14, 2023 'He’s scared s***less’: Hear John Kelly’s blunt take on Trump indictment at about 08:23, CNN's Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny says:
So one of the reasons the ...
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Why would a former US president's announcement of a reelection bid cut off legal defense funds?
At the end of CNN's August 9, 2022 video Analysis: How FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago could help Trump in 2024 (after about 10:00) host Brianna Keilar asks about the former US president potentially ...
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Why does the Biden campaign have a $32 donation tier?
Going onto the Joe Biden website, it's currently asking for donations for his presidential election campaign and potential legal action. Some of the options seem to be quite random though:
For those ...
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How are the 2020 US presidential campaigns now like "a land war in Asia"?
Politico's Bloomberg knocks Trump back on his heels in Florida includes:
“It’s forced the Trump campaign to retrench in Florida. You can see it in the spending habits, in television and digital. They’...
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Why are campaign budgets treated as important?
Plenty of research shows that campaign spending makes very little difference. See this article on FiveThirtyEight, for example.
So why does so much news reporting, like this, focus on that topic as ...
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How unusual is it for a registered foreign agent to have a lead position in a Super Pac in the United States? Is it legal?
While this question addresses if a foreign national can donate to a pac, what about having an officer role in a super pac while registered as a foreign agent?
Democratic presidential candidate Joe ...
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What is the effect of election campaign donations?
Candidates for the presidential election of the US collect donations in relation to their campaigns.
Candidates are sometimes compared based on the total amount of donations they received.
But what ...
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To what extent is a US political presidential candidate compromised by PAC funding?
Amy Klobuchar having launched her presidential nomination campaign stated that she would not be taking corporate PAC money.
Is that a big irregularity and if so what is the benefit of not taking ...
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Disclosure and publishing of 'catch and kill' practices favouring a presidential candidate
Catch and kill is the practice by a media outlet to buy the right to a negative story about someone and not publish it so that the story doesn't go public.
Suppose this technique was used by a ...
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How much do US presidential campaigns spend per vote gained?
I'm interested in knowing just how far my donations to a presidential candidate go in terms of garnering more votes for that candidate. I can find a lot of data on how many votes each presidential ...
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Can non-US citizens join super-PACs or pay for attack ads in the US?
Is there any law which prohibits foreigners (non-US citizens) from spending billions of dollars to sway U.S. elections by deliberately placing attack ads against certain political parties ? Can ...
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Get rid of national debt from excess campaign funds
Say there was a law that limited how much a presidential candidate could spend during the election process per month all/most of the campaign money isn't used (According to this article there isn't ...
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Do the big donors to a losing US presidential candidate ever get their money back?
Do the big donors to a losing US presidential candidate ever get their money back? And if so, how, and in how much time?
