McCain Feingold was the big campaign finance law that John McCain and Russ Feingold championed that put major constraints on political spending and political speech. I think McCain Feingold was an absolute abomination. One element of McCain Feingold is it limited the ability of a candidate to loan money to his or her own campaign and then pay yourself back. And so when I first ran for Senate in 2012, Heidi and I, in fact, right before the primary, I went to Heidi and I had a pretty surreal conversation. (26:29–26:41)
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Asserts that McCain Feingold limited candidates' ability to loan money to their campaigns and repay themselves.
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