Adav Noti

Biden would ban lobbyists from contributing to candidates they lobby. Warren would ban lobbyists from contributing at all, and also from bundling, which is a particularly insidious practice. Stronger: Warren

Both would prohibit corporate PACs from giving to candidates. Stronger: Tie

Both would strengthen the ban on coordination between candidates and super PACs. Stronger: Tie Both propose matching funds for federal candidates, and restoring public funding for national nominating conventions. Stronger: Tie

Both support a constitutional amendment to fix our campaign finance system. That would be great, but the President doesn’t have any role in the amendment process, so it’s more of a statement of principle than a commitment to act. Stronger: n/a

Both would vest campaign finance enforcement in a strengthened, 5-member agency (replacing or revamping the weak, 6-member @FEC). Warren also adopts by reference @DanWeiner329’s other excellent FEC reform ideas. Stronger: Warren

Both would end the wild west of digital political advertising through the excellent Honest Ads Act, or a similar bill. Stronger: Tie

Both would strengthen the ban on foreign spending in US elections. Biden doesn’t say how. Warren would ban foreigners from routing money through US corporations. Stronger: Warren

Both would end dark money by requiring shell companies to disclose the true sources of their election money. Stronger: Tie. (Biden also proposes banning campaign spending by 501(c)(4)s, but the Supreme Court struck that down a long time ago.)

Warren has stronger misc ideas: ban selling ambassadorships; limit inaugural $; require disclosure of closed-door fundraisers; lower contrib limits; require board approval of corp spending. Biden would require real-time disclosure; ban contribs by officers of federal contractors.