Tag: Federal Election Commission

Biden Widens His Financial Lead Over Trump

President Biden’s re-election campaign had $71 million on hand at the end of February, more than double the $33.5 million in former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign account, as Democrats continued to expand their fund-raising advantage over Republicans in the presidential race. The cash disparity was detailed in filings with the Federal Election Commission on […]

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The Most Surprising Ways 2024 Candidates Spent Donor Money

How political candidates spend their cash can say a lot about them: their instincts, their attention to detail, their care with money or lack thereof. So last week’s year-end reports with the Federal Election Commission served as a sort of M.R.I. They showed how some campaigns had thrived, while others had suffered slowing flows of […]

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How Much Cash Did Ron DeSantis Burn Through Against Trump?

It cost more than $160 million for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to come in second place in a single nominating contest. That astounding sum makes Mr. DeSantis’s failed presidential bid among the most expensive in modern Republican primary elections. But the details of where the money went, laid out in filings to the Federal […]

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Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump’s Online Campaign

The video, called “Let’s Get Ready to Bumble,” is a slick mash-up of President Biden’s verbal slip-ups and his stumbles set to a thumping 1990s dance track. And when it was played on a big screen at Trump rallies late last year, it consistently drew laughs and jeers from the crowd. But Donald J. Trump […]

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George Santos Reveals One Truth: It’s Easy to Abuse Campaign Finance Laws

In an April statement to The New York Times regarding a different matter, the F.E.C.’s chairwoman, Dara Lindenbaum, a Democrat, and its vice chairman, Sean J. Cooksey, a Republican, said: “We take this agency’s enforcement and transparency mission seriously, as do all of our colleagues. Without commenting on any specific case, Commissioners assess each enforcement […]

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Ferragamo, OnlyFans and Botox: How Santos Spent Donors’ Money

George Santos was utterly triumphant. He had just flipped a Long Island congressional seat, improbably helping deliver Republicans a House majority. It was time for a post-election shopping spree. Over just a few days last November, Mr. Santos dropped $6,000 at Ferragamo, perhaps partly on the red designer sneakers he later wore to walk the […]

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Biden Campaign Raises $71.3 Million in Third Quarter Alongside D.N.C.

President Biden’s re-election campaign announced on Sunday it had raised a combined $71.3 million alongside the Democratic National Committee and a joint fund-raising committee during the three-month period that ended in September, a haul that eclipses what his Republican rivals have amassed but falls short of where President Donald J. Trump was at this point […]

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