President Biden’s campaign plans to use longtime Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts to help raise money at the Los Angeles event and other events.
The actors will reportedly be joined by former President Barack Obama at the mid-June event, which will also include other top celebrity guests and representatives of Mr. Biden.
The fundraiser is said to be similar in style to a New York City fundraiser in March 2024 that featured Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton in a debate with talk show host Stephen Colbert. It is said. The Radio City Music Hall event reportedly grossed $26 million. NBC News.
Clooney and Roberts will be participating in a contest for supporters. CNN The content will reportedly be distributed across the Biden campaign’s social media channels. At the same time, the two will appear in social media posts and digital ads promoting Biden’s presidential inauguration.
Additionally, the two will lend their names to email and text message fundraising efforts for the campaign.
Campaign officials said the event was primarily aimed at fending off a surge in Trump’s fundraising, which is likely to increase now that he is the Republican nominee.
There are also reports that Mr. Clinton and First Lady Hillary will participate in fundraising events in the Eastern time zone in early summer on behalf of President Biden. This was revealed by a source familiar with the plan. NBC News.
“We have no illusions that he’s not going to close the gap.”
Biden’s recent campaign campaign raised $10 million in 24 hours on a trip to the West Coast, including two stops in the Bay Area, California, and two fundraisers in Seattle, Washington, CNN reported. It is said that
The Biden campaign currently has a financial advantage over the Trump campaign, as highlighted by many left-wing media outlets, with over $85 million in cash at the end of March 2024. That total more than doubled for him that month alone. Add in the Democratic National Committee numbers, and Biden’s train is carrying about $131 million.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign holds just over half of it, reportedly holding $67 million in cash.
But the Biden team is reportedly not counting the number of chickens before they hatch. Trump’s cash flow is expected to accelerate, especially after recent events such as a $50 million fundraiser in Florida, where officials claim he raised $76 million in one month.
“We have no illusions that he’s not going to close the gap,” a Biden campaign adviser told NBC News. “But what he can’t get back is the time we spent spending all this money doing what we did.”
Michael Taylor, the Biden campaign’s communications director, recently said the Biden campaign is working hard to win re-election in battleground states and is not interested in the Trump campaign’s bottom line.
“Whatever amount Mr. Trump and his team actually submit in their report, I’m going to pass on that,” he said.
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