'If You Can Keep It': The Ins And Outs Of Campaign Donations

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

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In this edition of If You Can Keep It, we're focusing on campaign donations – where those funds come from and where they go.

New data from the Federal Election Commissions reveals how much the campaigns have raised and spent for the month of August. It was the first full month of fundraising for Vice President Kamala Harris since she became the Democratic nominee. How did she do?

You might also be inundated with texts and emails from election campaigns asking for contributions.

We discuss how those contributions are spent and answer your questions.

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0:00.0	This message comes from the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Foundation.
0:04.0	If you're a U.S. Citizen living abroad, the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project's online form
0:10.2	will walk you through requesting your ballot in just five minutes.
0:13.5	Visit International Voter.com.
0:16.5	You're listening to the one-day podcast. I'm Jen White and I'm Todd Zwille
0:28.2	every week leading up to the election we're teaming up to bring you our politics
0:31.5	series if you can keep it.
0:33.2	This is our weekly election series where we leave the horse race to the side and instead focus
0:37.6	on the stakes of this election for people, for the country, and for the democracy.
0:42.4	Today we're focusing on campaign donations, where those funds come from and where they go.
0:47.0	You may have been inundated with ads like this recently.
0:51.0	Do you know what just $10 can do for Team Biden Harris? Well, $10 can help fund
0:58.3	powerful ads to reach undecided voters nationwide. $10 can help open field offices in key battleground states,
1:07.0	the ones that we need to win in November.
1:10.0	I am very humbly asking if you could chip in five ten or even twenty five dollars.
1:16.2	I know that times could be tough and they are tough under this horrible president that
1:20.7	we have crooked Joe Biden, but with your donation today we
1:24.2	will win back the White House we will make America great again greater than ever
1:28.4	before I promise you that.
1:30.4	Leading up to the election you're likely being bombarded with political texts, emails, and ads asking for financial support.
1:38.0	Beyond individual donations, money's flowing in from super PACs and billionaires too.
1:43.2	As November approaches, campaigns are hoping to gain a financial edge over their
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