M.D. Kittle of the Federalist highlights concerns about Democrats’ election fundraising.

It was a political fundraising tsunami. 

A day and a half after President Joe Biden announced he was ending his run for a second term, his vice president and presumed successor reportedly had raked in an eye-popping campaign contribution haul — north of $100 million. Within the first 24 hours, Kamala Harris’ campaign had reported more than $80 million in donations, record-smashing numbers all around. 

At the end of July, just 11 days after Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris, the Democratic Party’s new standard bearer had raised an incredible monthly total of $310 million, according to the Harris campaign, more than tripling the cash the Biden-Harris campaign had on hand. 

It wasn’t just unprecedented. It was curious. Harris, one of the most unpopular vice presidents in U.S. history with an executive record more laughable than the word salad sentences she’s tossed over her undistinguished tenure,  had instantaneously transformed into a political titan. From buffoon to “brat,” at least on the fundraising cash count.  

Maybe the cash bonanza was just a case of Kamala fever, an incredible wave of enthusiasm for the old “border czar” after the 81-year-old, cognitively diminished Biden finally stepped aside. Or, “Weeks of pent-up Democratic panic” giving way to a “historic flood” of campaign donations, from some 1.1 million donors in the first 41 hours alone, as The Washington Post put it.   

Maybe. 

Or just maybe, as some allege, the massive haul was assisted by “fraudulent, deceptive, and potentiall illegal behavior” by the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform, ActBlue.

Several Republican lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., are taking a closer look at allegations of “smurfing” — a cute blue way of describing political money laundering — ahead of a five-alarm presidential election. 

Steil, chairman of the House Committee on Administration, says that at the very least “negligent identity security practices involving the use of credit, prepaid, and gift cards for political donations could enable bad actors to circumvent” election integrity laws.