Campaign Finance Groups File Complaints Against Four Presidential Hopefuls.The article reports on the formal complaints filed by the groups, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, with the U.S. Federal Election Commission against several U.S. presidential candidates including Jeb Bush...
presidential elections, let's use the free and publicly accessible campaign finance dataset, provided by the Federal Elections Committee (FEC). Specifically, we will be using the Contributions by Individuals dataset for the 2015-2016 election cycle. Under US Federal law, aggregate donations...
This chapter explores the campaign finance issues in the 2016 presidential election. Because understanding campaign finance requires a grasp of federal election laws, this chapter provides a brief and understandable overview of campaign finance laws. Next, this chapter discusses the campaign expenditures ...
Running for president of the United States is an expensive proposition. In the 2012 presidential campaign, incumbent Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney spent over $1 billion each, in what was the most expensive presidential election ever at the time.1In 2016, the overall cost of the White...
the space x and tesla founder said tuesday on his social media platform x, shortly after the sum of money he contributed was made public in a campaign finance filing. harris interview with fox news showcases a change in strategy for democrats with network — 6:00 p.m. link copied by ...
Most of the others have put in a few million each, nowhere near enough to make a big dent inthe yawning money gaps. Here’s the current breakdown of self-funding — which includes self-loans — as of Sept. 30, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday: ...
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. —Theodore White Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and ...
the senior senator from deep red Kentucky, playing the part of a disruptor, in late August single-handedly blocked bipartisan decisions to alert the American public to FBI reports of Russia’s unwanted involvement in the presidential election, from staging cyberattacks to ties to the campaign of ...
So far this election cycle, Steyer has already given multiple seven figure checks totaling $14 million to his NextGen Climate Action Committee, according to campaign finance reports filed to the Federal Election Commission. To seek the Democratic nomination, he has stepped down from his leadershi...
Former R.I. congressional candidate pleads guilty to fraud, campaign finance violations Harold Russell Taub solicited more than $1.6 million to two organizations he falsely presented as political action committees. Still mindful of her startling 2016 defeat, Hillary Clinton said she had been meeting ...