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Biden expected to rake in $25 million with star-studded fundraiser featuring Obama and Clinton

By and 03/28/2024 | updated 2 years ago

President Joe Biden‘s reelection campaign is expected to end the day with another $25 million after an all-star fundraiser featuring former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

More than 5,000 people will attend the Thursday event, hosted by Mindy Kaling at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, for performances by Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, and Lea Michele, in addition to an armchair conversation with the three presidents, moderated by Stephen Colbert. There will also be separate programming online for supporters who cannot be there in person.

While Democrats are hoping the event will present a united front against former President Donald Trump, Biden’s campaign is simultaneously hoping it undermines his predecessor on the fundraising front. The Trump campaign raised $20 million in February, less than half the $53 million the president did during the same month. Trump’s campaign also had less than $42 million cash on hand, under a third of the $155 million the Biden counterpart had on hand.

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“Democrats are unified and energized behind President Biden’s reelection campaign — and that will be on full display this Thursday in New York City,” Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz told the Washington Examiner Wednesday. “Donald Trump has no juice heading into the general: Huge chunks of Republican primary voters have made clear they have no interest in voting for him this November, Republican leaders like his own vice president are openly opposing him, and even if Trump wanted to reach them (he does not!), he has no cash or energy to do so.”

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“Elections are won by putting in the work to assemble a broad, diverse coalition — and Joe Biden is doing just that,” Munoz said.

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