Thread: What happens to the contributions for candidates when they drop out of the race? What are the rules?

I think the funds have to remain with the Party if the candidate leaves. Does their money then go to endorse someone else?

Most have millions of dollars. What happens to it when they do or don't win after the election is over?

It goes to me. Well considering they probably used it its gone but most likely it goes to the government.

They get to keep any left over campaign money and use it for trips (vacations and hotel stays), office expenses (Louis Vuitton), etc.. They can also donate it to other candidates.

Democrat Fabian Nunez:
"$47,412 on United, Lufthansa and Air France airlines this year; $8,745 at the exclusive Hotel Arts in Barcelona, Spain; $5,149 for a "meeting" at Cave L'Avant Garde, a wine seller in the Bordeaux region of France; a total of $2,562 for two "office expenses" at [LV] Vuitton, two years apart; and $1,795 for a "meeting" at Le Grand Colbert, a venerable Parisian restaurant"
http://fetchingjen.blogspot.com/2007/10/fabian-nunez-again-demonstrates-his.html

Federal Election Campaign Laws
http://www.fec.gov/law/feca/feca.shtml

I know. Don't you wish you could get your money back?

it goes up the secretary of state's a*shole

They use the money to buy massages at Bill Clinton's library.

Obviously no one really knows. I would be willing to bet most of it is spent before they formally sign papers or report it.