Inside the GOP Presidential Candidate Gift Card Ploy Turning Campaign Finance Upside Down

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GOP Presidential Candidate Doug Burgum came up with a novel idea to get on the debate stage. It may or may not be legal.

say that the offer will help the campaign accomplish anything other than covering the cost of the donation and then some.

“It does seem desperate, but I don’t really see a legal problem with it as long as everything is disclosed,” Ghosh told The Daily Beast. “The straw donor error is that you’re disclosing that you’re the contributor, when really it’s someone else,” Kang said. “In this case, it’s the campaign.”

 

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