Trump team files FEC complaint over transfer of Biden's $91M to Harris campaign: 'Brazen money grab'
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris arrives at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 22, 2024. (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Former President Trump’s campaign reportedly filed an FEC complaint accusing President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The complaint, first reported by the New York Times, relates to the Biden campaign rolling its funds over to Harris' campaign after the president dropped out of the race on Sunday.
In the filing, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, the Trump campaign argued that Harris is "seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash."
David Warrington, who serves as general counsel for the Trump campaign, called the act "a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended."
"Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it," the filing concluded. "The Commission must not and cannot sit idly by while one candidate takes nearly one hundred million dollars from the authorized committee of another, in violation of the Act and the will of the donors who gave the money in the first place."
The Harris campaign told Fox News Digital that the complaint was "baseless."
“Team Harris will continue to build on our more than 250 coordinated offices and more than 1,300 coordinated staffers across the battleground states – just like we built on the $240 million cash on hand that we had at launch this week, raising $100 million in our first 36 hours and signing up 58,000 volunteers," the statement read.
"Republicans may be jealous that Democrats are energized to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, but baseless legal claims – like the ones they’ve made for years to try to suppress votes and steal elections – will only distract them while we sign up volunteers, talk to voters, and win this election.”
