The campaign of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, saying that US Vice President Kamala Harris cannot legally use funds raised by President Joe Biden's re-election campaign.
Biden, the 81-year-old Democrat, who was in a close race with Republican rival Donald Trump, endorsed Harris when he ended his bid to win a new term on Sunday.
Harris quickly took control of the Biden campaign's accounts, and on Monday evening, she clinched the nomination by winning pledges from the majority of delegates who will determine the nominee at the party convention next month, according to her campaign.
The dispute over the accounts, which amounted to about $95 million in banks at the end of June, is part of a multi-pronged effort by Republicans to derail Harris' bid to become the Democratic Party's nominee in the elections.
The Trump campaign said Harris had engaged in a "brazen cash grab," according to the filing by David Warrington, the campaign's general counsel.
In the file shared with Reuters, Warrington said that Harris is about to commit what he described as “the largest campaign finance violation in American history.”
Sourav Ghosh, an attorney at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said that because Harris was already part of Biden's campaign as vice presidential nominee, her possession of the money should be intact.
In any case, election organizers are unlikely to resolve this issue before the presidential election on November 5.
The Federal Election Commission said it was unable to comment on unresolved enforcement matters.
Harris' campaign said it has raised $100 million since Sunday, when Biden stepped down and endorsed her, exceeding Biden's remaining tally in just a few days.
Her campaign ignored the complaint to the Federal Election Commission.
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