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Money raised is applied for the salaries of non-volunteers in the campaign, transportation, campaign materials, media advertisements and other contingencies. Under United States law, officially declared candidates are required to file campaign finance details with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) at the end of every calendar month or ...
Politicians are sometimes tempted to spend campaign funds for personal purposes instead of their election campaign. One U.S. Representative, Duncan D. Hunter of California, for example, was sentenced to 11 months in prison in 2020 "for spending 2018 campaign donations on family trips to Hawaii and Italy and private school for his children." [133]
This was followed by the Black Lives Matter movement, which protested police brutality against black people, and became a central point of the 2020 presidential campaign. [296] Protests were mostly peaceful; fewer than 4% involved property damage or violence (with most of the latter directed at BLM protesters themselves). [297]
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017) – under whom Biden served as vice president, U.S. Senator from Illinois (2005–2008), Illinois State Senator from District 13 (1997–2004), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 [3]
The final report was released on July 8, 2020, and was expected to form the basis of the 2020 Democratic presidential platform. [99] [100] The six groups were coordinated by Analilia Mejia, political director to the Sanders primary campaign, and Carmel Martin, an advisor to Biden. [100] [101] (Italics denotes the chair of a committee)
The campaign staff was focused on data-building and fundraising for a 2020 re-election campaign. [34] [76] On January 18, Trump revealed, in an interview with The Washington Post, that he had decided Keep America Great would be his 2020 re-election campaign slogan.
During 2019, Gabbard's campaign raised $10 million from individual contributions, which is the 11th position among all Democratic candidates. 61% of these contributions were small dollar donations below $200. By January 26, 2020, the campaign had met the DNC's 225,000 individual donors qualifying criterion for participating in the first ...
The 2020 presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, an attorney, entrepreneur, and the founder of Venture for America, began on November 6, 2017, when Yang filed with the Federal Election Commission to participate in the Democratic primaries. Yang suspended his campaign on February 11, 2020, the night of the New Hampshire primary.