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After former President Trump’s profitable, three-day swing by California, President Biden has returned to the West Coast to faucet into the Democrat-dominated state’s political ATM.
With lower than 5 months to go till the November election, late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel will interview Biden and former President Obama as they workforce up with Hollywood heavyweights George Clooney and Julia Roberts at a star-studded fundraiser the president’s marketing campaign stated is already breaking data.
Biden’s marketing campaign boasted “the occasion has already raised over $28 million and counting — making it the largest fundraiser in Democratic Occasion historical past.”
The haul tops a fundraiser with Biden, Obama and former President Clinton in March at New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, which raked in $26 million.
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Former presidents Clinton (proper) and Obama (left) and President Biden (heart) headline a Democratic Occasion fundraiser at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor March 28, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Getty Pictures)
However Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, hauled in over $50 million in early April at a fundraiser on the Palm Seashore, Florida, dwelling of billionaire investor and hedge fund founder John Paulson. It was probably the most cash ever introduced in at a single fundraising occasion and shattered the file Biden set only a week and a half earlier at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
It is the most recent case of nationwide politicians coming to California to pad their marketing campaign coffers. In accordance with figures from the Federal Election Fee, Biden and Trump have raked in more cash in California this cycle than another state.
“When politicians look to the west, they see a subject of inexperienced,” veteran California-based political scientist Jack Pitney at Claremont McKenna Faculty instructed Fox Information.
President Biden and former President Trump have each hauled in tens of millions at fundraising occasions in California as they face off of their 2024 election rematch. (AP Photograph/Julia Nikhinson and Evan Vucci)
Tickets for Saturday’s gala on the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, which an invite describes as a “historic night time,” ranged from $250 for a single individual to get within the door to half one million {dollars} for particular entry, photographs with Biden and Obama and invites to an after-party.
The president arrived in California one week after Trump left the Golden State.
Trump’s workforce stated when all the cash is counted, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was anticipated to haul in roughly $27.5 million from three fundraisers in California and one in Las Vegas, a senior marketing campaign official instructed Fox Information.
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And the Trump marketing campaign stated a further $6 million was raised for outdoor teams supporting his 2024 election rematch with Biden.
Trump has been aiming to shut his fundraising hole with Biden. In April, his marketing campaign and the Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) for the primary time raised greater than the Biden marketing campaign and the Democratic Nationwide Committee.
Trump’s marketing campaign introduced every week in the past it and the RNC hauled in a surprising $141 million in Could, fueled partially by the previous president’s responsible verdicts in his just lately concluded prison trial.
Former President Trump seems in Manhattan Prison Courtroom Could 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig, Pool)
Trump was discovered responsible of all 34 felony counts within the first trial of a former or present president within the nation’s historical past.
The previous president’s marketing campaign famous that, within the first 24 hours following the decision, it and the RNC introduced in practically $53 million, which counted towards Could’s whole.
The Biden marketing campaign has additionally been elevating cash from the Trump verdict, and a supply instructed Fox Information “the 24 hours after the decision have been top-of-the-line fundraising 24 hours of the Biden marketing campaign since launch.”
Whereas Trump’s California fundraising haul was fueled by top-dollar GOP donors, together with tech business traders and hedge fund giants, Saturday’s fundraising for Biden is being orchestrated by the Democratic Hollywood machine.
It is no shock. The leisure business, which showered presidents Clinton and Obama with marketing campaign money, has lengthy been recognized for its Democratic leanings.
And whereas the 81-year-old Biden does not have the tight relationships with Hollywood that his Democratic predecessors loved, he can nonetheless draw a crowd.
“Any Democratic presidential candidate goes to have the ability to elevate some huge cash in California, and an incumbent president has a giant benefit. When the president enters a room, it fills up with money,” Pitney stated.
President Biden waves as he arrives on Air Pressure One June 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. Biden will attend a marketing campaign occasion Saturday night time. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
Main strikes by two Hollywood labor unions representing movie and tv writers and actors from Could by November of final yr delayed Biden from elevating cash in Los Angeles leisure circles.
However the president began making up for misplaced time in December with a serious fundraiser hosted by famed administrators Steven Spielberg and Rob Reiner. Saturday’s mega-fundraiser was orchestrated by media mogul and Democratic rainmaker Jeffrey Katzenberg, who’s a Biden marketing campaign co-chair. Katzenberg additionally put collectively the Radio Metropolis Music Corridor fundraiser.
The Biden marketing campaign and the Democratic Nationwide Committee have enlisted the assistance of loads of stars and well-known performers from the leisure world because the president runs for a second time period.
Amongst these lending a hand is famed actor Robert De Niro, who headlined a Biden marketing campaign information convention outdoors the New York Metropolis courthouse through the ultimate days of Trump’s trial.
The information convention went viral after De Niro, who portrayed mobsters in such cinematic masterpieces as “The Godfather Half II” and “Goodfellas,” screamed at close by Trump supporters that “You’re gangsters” as they yelled obscenities on the actor.
Actor Mark Hamill, who portrayed Luke Skywalker within the Star Wars saga, made a latest unannounced look on the White Home briefing room to reward the president and referred to as Biden “Joe-Bi-Wan-Kenobi.”
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Spielberg has helped the DNC with its storytelling efforts, and Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer campaigned with Vice President Kamala Harris on a latest swing by battleground Michigan.
Trump, whose ultimate California fundraiser befell final weekend at a tony gated neighborhood in upscale Newport Seashore, California, and included veteran actor Jon Voight, will spend this weekend in Michigan, holding a number of occasions, together with a roundtable dialogue at a northwest Detroit church.
Supporters of former President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, react to his motorcade on the day he visits to lift cash in Newport Seashore, Calif., June 8, 2024. (REUTERS/David Swanson)
The Trump marketing campaign argued the previous president shall be assembly with “on a regular basis Individuals” whereas “Biden shall be at a glitzy fundraiser in Hollywood along with his elitist, out-of-touch movie star benefactors that personal him.”
The Trump marketing campaign and Republican allies additionally criticized the president for skipping a peace convention on Ukraine being held this weekend in Switzerland to seem on the California fundraiser. Vice President Kamala Harris will characterize the U.S. on the peace talks.
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