The former vice president has been raising the funds to pay all of those expenses and to keep the party whole financially. But small donors making those contributions have been left in the dark.
There is no sign that the deal between Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee violated any campaign finance rules, though it helps to explain how the party simultaneously has had both a deteriorating cash situation and record fund-raising.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California, has nicknamed his remapping effort the “Election Rigging Response Act,” arguing it is a counter to Texas’ pledge to redraw its map.
If you want to understand the health of a political party, take a look at their voter registration numbers. And for the Democrats, it’s not looking good.
Florida has had a significant shift of registered voters in the Republican direction, a remarkable inversion that explains the state’s transformation from a perennial battleground to the new symbol of red America.
The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.