Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue May 13, 2008 at 7:02 PM Pacific

Clintons may repay campaign debt with book deals, speeches

Tim Russert earlier tonight:

The Clintons are over $20 million in debt in their campaign, half of which is out of their own personal finances. If that money is not repayed to them by August -- the convention -- they lose it. They can't get it back. They can't raise it other ways. They sacrifice all but $250,000 of it. So it's a big hit. I talked to someone very close to the Clintons today and he said, "well, you know if they have to put a couple more million dollars in the race if they think they want to go forward, they will, because to them $10-$15 million invested in the campaign, they can get it back with book deals and speeches and so forth."

Clintons may repay campaign debt with book deals, speeches

Tim Russert earlier tonight:

The Clintons are over $20 million in debt in their campaign, half of which is out of their own personal finances. If that money is not repayed to them by August -- the convention -- they lose it. They can't get it back. They can't raise it other ways. They sacrifice all but $250,000 of it. So it's a big hit. I talked to someone very close to the Clintons today and he said, "well, you know if they have to put a couple more million dollars in the race if they think they want to go forward, they will, because to them $10-$15 million invested in the campaign, they can get it back with book deals and speeches and so forth."

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