TAPPER: Candidates usually ask for cold hard cash but sometimes a softer contribution can be just as helpful it's this week's "State of the Cartoonion."</s>TAPPER (voice-over): Today's class in politics is about in-kind contributions. These are donations to a campaign of anything other than money that is of value furniture, printing costs. If Ben and Jerry were to end up coming up with a new flavor to promote their preferred candidate, say Sanders needs to crunch that could be seen as an in-kind contribution. As would, as another example letting Lincoln Chafee sleep on your couch in Davenport, Iowa for a month. Or doing Martin O'Malley's laundry for him. You could use his abs for a wash board I suppose. That's in kind as well. Now, no other candidate in recent weeks has been gifted with more high profile in-kind contributions than Hillary Clinton. "SNL" let her seem relatable in a skit for instance. Then from an unlikely source a gift from Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to help undermine the Benghazi committee.</s>REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA), HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER: Everybody thought that Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee. What are her numbers today?</s>TAPPER: And just this week right up there in the debate stage Bernie Sanders gifted her with this.</s>SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.</s>CLINTON: Thank you. Me too.</s>TAPPER: In-kind contributions need to be reported to the Federal Election Commission. The problem is figuring out how much each one is worth.</s>TAPPER: Thanks for watching. "FAREED ZAKARIA, GPS," comes right now.
State of the Cartoonion, In Kind Contributions.