A prominent Hollywood megadonor is pressuring Senate Democrats to publicly abandon Joe Biden, saying they won’t give them another cent unless they ask the president to give up reelection.
Tom Strickler, co-founder of Hollywood talent agency WME (now owned by Endeavor), has reportedly launched an all-out attack on Joe Biden’s campaign. The New York Times reportHe has already met with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) and issued an ultimatum.
“If you don’t publicly call on Biden to step down, you won’t get a dime from me,” Strickler reportedly told Sen. Heinrich’s team on Thursday morning.
Strickler said: Times He also said he had planned to give the maximum amount of funding allowed to each of the seven most vulnerable Democratic Senate candidates in August, but that he would not do so now because they have not broken away from Biden.
“This is the message I encouraged my friends to send,” he told the paper. “If you support Biden, you lose our support. Period.”
This comes shortly after Biden’s campaign co-chairman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, held an emergency meeting with the 81-year-old president in Las Vegas on Wednesday and warned that donations were drying up amid ongoing concerns about the president’s advanced age, Semaphore reported. report.
“They say money is the mother’s milk of politics, but it’s really drying up.” translation: After Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly warned President Biden that donors’ patience was reaching its limits, “people are stopping writing checks.” pic.twitter.com/tjhpLoJJl3
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Tom Strickler is the latest Hollywood Democratic megadonor to defect from the Biden campaign following the president’s humiliating debate performance, in which a visibly confused Biden struggled to complete sentences, repeatedly lost his train of thought and slurred gibberish (“We finally won Medicare”).
His shockingly bad performance sparked a civil war within the Democratic Party over who should be the party’s nominee to face off against former President Donald Trump in November.
Hollywood donors are abandoning the Biden campaign in droves.
George Clooney, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, veteran studio president Barry Diller, and lost Creator Damon Lindelof and one of Biden’s staunchest supporters in Hollywood, Rob Reiner, have also called on the president to “step down.”
But for now, Joe Biden has refused to relinquish his grip on power, vowing to remain the Democratic nominee despite growing calls for him to step down.
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