The Legal Way donors jump over limits on funding their favorite candidate.

I'm David Brancacho leading today with one of our check-ins on political donations in this election year.

Today, organizations with punchy names such as on political donations in this election year today organizations

with punchy names such as Biden Victory Fund or Trump's Save America. These are

fundraising outfits that make it possible to bring in lots of donations without running afoul of

contribution limits back in 2020 these joint fundraising committees

JFCs raised more than two and a half billion dollars according to open secrets which tracks campaign

finance data so far this election cycle they've pulled in one billion dollars

and counting for more I'm joined by marketplace the senior Senior Washington Correspondent Kimberly Adams.

Hey, Kimberly.

Hey David.

What are these things?

How is a joint fundraising committee different from a PAC or a candidate campaign.

You can think of them sort of as umbrella organizations.

They can include a candidates committee, a PAC or political action committee, national

party committee, state party committees, Convention Committees, the list goes on.

But the key thing is that while each of these groups has a limit to how much one person can

donate to them, when they connect under that umbrella of the joint

fundraising committee, they can combine all those limits together and ask donors

for one big check. I had Ki-Hong lead of the political law group at the firm

Scabden Arps. Walk me through some of the numbers for the presidential race.

You can give 41,,300 per year to the National Party Committee's main account.

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