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From: Maple MAGA	11/22/2020 2:44:36 AM
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Joe Biden’s begging bowl demeans the world’s most powerful post Kenan Malik There is something absurd about grifting from the very people who voted for him Sun 22 Nov 2020 Joe Biden and his campaign have asked for millions of dollars from supporters to help fund his transition. Photograph: Office Of The President Elect/EPA ‘Here’s the deal: Because President Trump refuses to concede and is delaying the transition, we have to fund it ourselves and need your help. If you’re able, chip in to help fund the Biden-Harris transition.” So tweeted Joe Biden last week. His campaign has also sent out emails begging “grassroots supporters like you… to power us through this critical moment”. There is something absurd about the president-elect grifting from car workers and nurses to help him move to the White House. Normally, the process is federally funded. This time, the money – $10bn – has been blocked because the General Services Administration (GSA), the organization responsible for handing it out, has refused to recognize Biden’s victory. The begging bowl approach has become common practice in recent years – Donald Trump raised $6.5m in 2016. The Biden campaign has apparently already solicited $8m from corporate backers. It’s a questionable development. Guardian US newsletters for the 2020 election and beyond Such pleading erodes the distinction between campaigning and governance. It provides partisan funding for what is part of the state. At a time when America is so polarized, such funding makes it more difficult to be a “president for all Americans”. It further privatizes governance, leverages the power of lobbyists and special interests and undermines the authority of the president-elect: the most powerful figure in the world begging for your loose change. Trump’s refusal to accept the election result and the farcical conspiracy theories peddled by his lawyers are undermining US democracy, but in the long term there is something deeply corrosive about turning transition into a crowd-funded partisan process. • Kenan Malik is an Observer columnist

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