President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has taken the formal step to adopt the name of “Harris for President”.
The campaign now officially names Vice-President Kamala Harris as its candidate for president in the 2024 cycle, according to a letter sent to the Federal Election Commission, external, or FEC.
This is a huge step, as Biden and Harris share a campaign committee. She can now continue using the general election funds that the Biden campaign had raised previously.
Biden’s campaign war chest sat at $96m entering July, according to FEC filings. The party and several political action committees have additional funds that Harris will aim to secure by becoming the party’s official nominee.
Trevor Potter, a former FEC chairman who leads the Campaign Legal Center, said a “presumptive nominee stepping down months before Election Day is not an ordinary event, but it is also not a crisis”.
Harris can use Biden’s campaign funds because they shared a campaign committee, but “the rules are different” for a ticket that does not include the vice-president, Potter said.
