Complaint About Biden From Americans for Public Trust to the Federal Election Commission

STATEMENT OF FACTS

9. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was elected as President of the United States in 2020 and was sworn in on January 20, 2021.²

10. Since January 20, 2021, President Biden’s principal marketing campaign committee, Biden for President, has spent greater than $5 million {dollars}, together with $1 million on “textual content message/e mail

outreach” and virtually $250,000 on a “database subscription” – thereby exceeding the $5,000 threshold to be declared a candidate.³

11. In addition to important marketing campaign expenditures, President Biden’s White House employees, spokespersons, Vice President, and surrogates have made quite a few on-the-record statements indicating that he has commenced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.

12. Beginning in November of 2021, in response to a reporter’s query, “[t]right here have been experiences that President Biden was telling allies that he’s going to run for re-election in 2024. Can you verify, is he going to run in 2024? Is he telling employees that?,” then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “[h]e is, that is his intention.”4

13. President Biden’s present Press Secretary – Karine Jean-Pierre – conclusively said on June 13, 2022, “[y]es, he is operating for reelection. I’m I am unable to say greater than that.” Later that day, she doubled down and tweeted that, “[t]o be clear, as the President has stated repeatedly, he plans to run in 2024,” and a month later once more tweeted that, “[t]he president has been very clear about this. He intends to run in 2024.”5

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14. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has additionally gone on-the-record to focus on President Biden’s marketing campaign for reelection, stating, “I’m wanting ahead to supporting the president’s reelection. Ah, that’s as a lot as I can say about this stuff whereas I’m right here on an official…capability”

15. President Biden himself has gone as far as to verify that Vice President Kamala Harris will probably be his operating mate in 2024: “Yes’ and ‘sure,’ Biden responded throughout his first information convention of the 12 months [2022] when a reporter requested whether or not Harris can be on his ticket and whether or not he thought she was doing an excellent job on voting rights insurance policies.”

16. Vice President Kamala Harris emphatically informed CNN’s Dana Bash – when requested about the president’s marketing campaign for reelection in 2024 – that, “Joe Biden is operating for reelection and I will probably be his ticket mate…Full cease. That’s it.”

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17. Public reporting has said that, “[i]n private and non-private, Biden himself has emphasised that he’s operating, successfully shutting down any dialogue of the matter between the president and

2 Toluse Olorunnipa and Annie Linskey, Joe Biden is Sworn In as the forty sixth President, Pleads for Unity in Inaugural Address to a Divided Nation, The Washington Post (Jan. 20, 2021).

3 Federal Election Commission, Statement of Organization, Biden for President (Apr. 25, 2019). Federal Election Commission, Disbursements (search for spender “Biden for President” and Disbursement Type “Made By Presidential Committees: Operating Expenditures,” time interval “1/20/21 to date”); Federal Election Commission, Disbursements (search for spender “Biden for President” and Disbursement Detail “textual content message/e mail outreach,” reporting time interval “2021-2022”); Federal Election Commission, Disbursements (search for spender “Biden for President” and Disbursement Detail “database subscription,” reporting time interval “2021-2022”); 11 C.F.R. § 100.3.

4 Steve Nelson, Psaki Says Biden Still Intends to Run in 2024 Despite Poor Polls, Old Age, New York Post (Nov. 22, 2021).

5 The White House, Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (June 13, 2022); Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec), Twitter (June 13, 2022); CBS News (@CBSNews), Twitter (July 28, 2022).

6 CNBC, Squawk Box, Squawk Newsmaker: Prices at the Pump: Transportation Secretary Weighs In, Clip begins at 0:54 (Aug. 4, 2022).

7 Claire Rafford, Biden Commits to Harris as His Running Mate for 2024, Politico (Jan. 19, 2022).

8 Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN), Twitter (June 27, 2022).

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