<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s 2024 presidential campaign said this week that the stakes for the upcoming election are “sky high” so it will again accept dark money donations despite previously condemning such donations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden’s campaign made the statement to CBS News as it <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-64-million-mystery-anonymous-donations-2024-presidential-campaign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on a massive $64 million anonymous donation that was sent to his campaign in 2020. The donation was routed to his campaign coffers through the Impetus Fund, a 501c4 tax-exempt organization that says it is focused on “social welfare.” </span></p>
<p>This pledge to accept dark money comes after Biden previously <span style="font-weight: 400;">said that dark money “erodes public trust” and that it “flows in the shadows to influence our elections.” </span>However, like in 2020, Biden has again signaled he has no issue taken money that is routed to his campaign coffers without scrutiny.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The stakes of this election are sky high,&#8221; a Biden adviser told CBS. &#8220;We will protect our democracy with every tool that is legally available.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The focus on Biden’s acceptance of dark money comes with lingering questions about the mysterious $64 million donation. A large bulk of that donation, $55 million, was moved from Impetus to Future Forward USA Action, a nonprofit Biden super PAC. Then, Future Forward USA Action sent $60 million to Future Forward PAC for use in electioneering, CBS News reported. Since the money was sent to the nonprofit first, the donor/donors were shielded from exposure. </span></p>
<p>Little is known about the D.C.-based Impetus Fund except that it says it &#8220;works with changemakers across the country to unlock a more inclusive, accessible, and vibrant democracy.&#8221; The group&#8217;s president, Ezra Reese, is tied to Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias. Reese is the political law chair at the Elias Law Group.</p>
<p>Impetus is a project of Arabella Advisors, a massive leftist dark money group that had about $3 billion on hand for the 2022 midterm elections. Back in 2020, it had $410 million that it used against former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden’s acceptance of dark money funding has drawn criticism from government watchdog groups.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;For too long the left has been playing a game of decrying dark money while at the same time being fully dependent on it, even supercharging Mr. Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign,&#8221; Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told CBS.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anna Massoglia, the editorial and investigations manager at OpenSecrets, said that dark money hid important information about who was trying to influence American voters. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Without information about who is funding groups spending to influence elections, voters won&#8217;t know who is trying to color their views, won&#8217;t be aware of any potential conflicts of interest that a funder has or what stake they may have in the outcome of the election,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
<p>So far in the 2024 election cycle, Biden has held a significant advantage in fundraising, but Trump has been pulling closer in recent months with big hulls coming alongside his legal battles.</p>

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