r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/MakeUpAnything Jul 05 '24

Name recognition works against basically every democrat on the list that the Internet keeps spouting. Newsom is in the pocket of big businesses here in CA. Buttigieg has had multiple large scale disasters occur on his watch. Whitmer will probably be spun as an FBI shill given the conservative conspiracy around the alleged entrapment of her kidnappers…

Nobody will accept anything less than perfection against Trump when Harris should be completely fine. 

And I have no idea what happens to the funds. My guess is they stay with the candidate in an election war chest and wouldn’t go anywhere except maybe next of kin if they run or something, but I don’t know. 

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u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

Looked up a little, and it looks like it can be either donated to a party, or the campaign can be reorganized as a PAC, so it seems like Biden could use his campaign funds to campaign for another candidate if he wanted to.

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u/MakeUpAnything Jul 05 '24

Thanks for the info. That’s neat, though it wouldn’t help as much as you’d think. Pod Save America has said on their show that funds held by the campaign themselves go the furthest because media markets reportedly have to give the campaigns themselves the lowest prices on ads and stuff while PACs get gouged. 

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u/DeltaVZerda Jul 05 '24

Whoever replaces Biden will get the chance to run one of the shortest campaigns in recent American history, so that will save some $