Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?

workerONE@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

These stimulus checks were approved and backed by Trump but blocked by the Republican controlled Senate. Biden wasn’t offering them as a reward for voting a certain way. He was warning that if those seats were lost Republicans would block the checks. Trump was pushing for these checks publicly

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · edit-2 1 month ago

Biden wasn’t offering them as a reward for voting a certain way.

Okay.

He was warning that if those seats were lost Republicans would block the checks

You realize that’s the same thing, right? Elect my guys and you get money.