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Kaine Misleads on Weinstein’s Donations

Asked if the Clinton-Kaine campaign will return contributions it received from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly said the campaign is over. That’s true, but it doesn’t mean the campaign can’t refund donations.

As of June 30, the Hillary for America campaign committee had nearly $1 million in cash on hand, according to its most recent quarterly report. The committee refunded hundreds of individual campaign contributions in the last quarter, which covered April 1 to June 30.

A major Democratic donor, Weinstein by his film studio, The Weinstein Company, after the

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