2020 Candidates Delayed Paying Staff to Look Richer on Paper
made regular payments to its staff and vendors, with varying daily expenditures that never exceeded $335,000. But on April 1, 2019, the campaign’s spending exploded. Whereas Klobuchar’s campaign spent an average of about $55,000 per day through the end of June, according to FEC filings, it dropped a whopping $624,000 on the first day of April, including a $300,000 payment to the campaign’s digital vendor./ That massive uptick in expenses was likely due to the fact that April 1 marked the beginning of the new fundraising quarter. By putting ...
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