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Celebrities and elites on the highest echelons of American society and business have showered President Biden’s re-election marketing campaign with large donations, which might undercut the forty sixth president’s homespun “Scranton Joe” and “Amtrak Joe” picture.
Biden took the stage of Los Angeles’s Peacock Theater earlier this month, when he was flanked by former President Obama and late evening host Jimmy Kimmel. The viewers, performers and others attending the occasion in Biden’s assist included Hollywood elites reminiscent of George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Barbra Streisand, Jack Black, Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn and Mindy Kaling, Vainness Truthful reported. The star-studded fundraiser was a financial success for the president’s re-election marketing campaign, shattering earlier Democratic fundraising benchmarks with $30 million in donations, the Biden marketing campaign mentioned earlier this month.
The swank fundraiser, nevertheless, comes at a time when inflation continues throttling the typical American family, and the president pitches himself to voters as a person of the folks with humble roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“2024 might be a alternative between two very totally different financial visions for America: Donald Trump, who sees the world from his nation membership at Mar-a-Lago, and President Biden, who sees the world from kitchen tables in Scranton,” Biden’s marketing campaign web site reads.
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President Biden laughs with former President Obama throughout a marketing campaign fundraiser on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Photographs)
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Former President Trump, UFC president Dana White through the UFC 295 occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard on Nov. 11, 2023, in New York Metropolis. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC through Getty Photographs)
The 2023-2024 election cycle is anticipated to be the costliest in historical past, with Forbes reporting political advert spending would high $10 billion throughout White Home and congressional races.
Following Biden saying in April of final yr that he’d “end the job” and run for re-election, the Biden-Harris marketing campaign amped up its fundraisers for the anticipated rematch in opposition to former President Trump.
President Biden speaks with host Jimmy Kimmel as he makes his first in-person look on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” in Hollywood, California, June 8, 2022. (Jim Watson/AFP through Getty Photographs)
As Hollywood’s writers’ strike raged final yr, Biden engaged with Broadway stars to spice up marketing campaign funds, with performers reminiscent of Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt showing on behalf of Biden in September for a star-studded fundraiser, the AP reported.
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As 2023 drew to a detailed, Biden went on a Hollywood-focused fundraiser blitz. Singer James Taylor carried out throughout a Boston fundraiser in December, earlier than the president traveled to Los Angeles, the place he held a collection of fundraisers, together with one joined by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, director and actor Rob Reiner and producer Shonda Rhimes, along with California politicos reminiscent of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. Singer Lenny Kravitz carried out through the occasion, which value $1,000 to $500,000 per ticket, the Los Angeles Each day Information reported on the time.
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Vice President Kamala Harris additionally attended swank fundraisers final yr, together with one on Martha’s Winery. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
Vice President Kamala Harris additionally attended swank fundraisers final yr, together with one on Martha’s Winery with “Fits” actor Wendell Pierce throughout an occasion billed as “grassroots” that bought tickets for $50 to $10,000.
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Hollywood stars and executives have been among the many first to pad Biden’s marketing campaign coffers forward of the election cycle kicking off in earnest this yr. Former Walt Disney Studios chair Jeffrey Katzenberg, for instance, made an $889,600 contribution to Biden final yr, as did Lin-Manuel Miranda, when he donated $20,000, Deadline reported final yr. Different Hollywood and tech leaders made sizable donations to the Biden Victory Fund, DNC, or different Democratic initiatives in 2023, reminiscent of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman donating $200,000, actor and voice actor Seth MacFarlane donating $100,000, and music composer Michael Skloff donating $100,000, the outlet reported.
The Biden marketing campaign and Democratic Nationwide Committee introduced earlier this yr that they raised $97 million within the final three months of 2023, which PBS reported was “boosted” by Biden’s swank occasions with Hollywood stars.
President Biden and former Presidents Obama and Clinton throughout a marketing campaign fundraising occasion at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York, March 28, 2024. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)
The Biden-Harris marketing campaign continued courting celebrities and different moneyed elites this yr, together with at New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis in March, which was hosted by actress Mindy Kaling, with late evening host Stephen Colbert moderating a dialog with Biden, Obama and former President Invoice Clinton. Particular visitors reminiscent of Queen Latifah, Lizzo and Ben Platt have been additionally in attendance, in line with media stories. The occasion pulled in additional than $26 million, in line with the marketing campaign.
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Harris additionally headlined fundraising occasions in her native California earlier this yr, the place she joined a clear power chief in San Francisco, earlier than one other cease on the house of creator Robert Mailer Anderson and Oracle heiress Nicola Miner within the metropolis’s Pacific Heights neighborhood. The Pacific Heights fundraiser value attendees upward of $100,00 per particular person, and included assist from theater director Jonathan Moscone and Mayor London Breed, in addition to a efficiency from singer Carole King, the San Francisco Customary reported on the time.
Trump, whose actual property background and actuality TV success cemented him in Hollywood’s orbit pre-politics, has additionally held high-profile fundraisers this election cycle, however seldom with film elites. As a substitute, he has held swank occasions at his Mar-a-Lago property, met with residents of rich areas reminiscent of Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, and has attended high-profile public occasions at Madison Sq. Backyard, however not for fundraising functions.
President Biden is seen talking in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Damian Dovarganes)
Biden beforehand had a large fundraising benefit over Trump within the 2024 race for the White Home, however latest windfalls following Trump’s conviction within the New York felony trial have primarily erased Biden’s lead, Fox Information Digital reported this weekend. Trump and the RNC notched their second consecutive month in Could of outraising Biden and the DNC, all whereas not but launching a basic election advert purchase. Biden’s marketing campaign, conversely, has spent at the least $65 million on advert purchases.
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“The one folks in America who assist Joe Biden’s failing marketing campaign are elitist Hollywood celebrities,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt mentioned in a press release earlier this month.
Biden’s ritzy fundraisers have been additionally slammed in a Wall Avenue Journal op-ed final week by Fox Information contributor Daniel Henninger, who famous that after many years of the Democratic Get together benefiting from Hollywood cash, the 2024 election cycle might change the sport for the left-wing get together as inflation continues spiraling.
Demonstrators rally earlier than President Biden’s fundraiser on March 28, 2024, at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis. (Alex Kent/Getty Photographs)
“The Democratic Get together’s movie star dependency has been background noise for many years and never an issue… till now. This presidential election stays intently contested. With the price of dwelling the No. 1 difficulty, every swing-state vote deserves consideration. On this high-stakes context, the spectacle of the incumbent president jetting from Europe to Hollywood is the sort of look Mr. Biden and his get together don’t want. He’s Hollywood Joe,” Henniger wrote.
“However discover that on the day Mr. Biden tapped the Hollywood ATM, Mr. Trump campaigned at a black church in Detroit. It’s changing into laborious to suppress the truth reported in polls that Mr. Trump, former host of “The Apprentice,” is peeling off layers of the normal Democratic coalition – blacks, Hispanics, youthful Individuals and probably even Jewish voters. The Democratic base as soon as had one thing resembling a typical identification, however not a lot anymore. And it’s getting late to repair that,” he continued.
Biden’s marketing campaign did face criticism final month when actor Robert DeNiro headlined a marketing campaign occasion exterior the Manhattan courthouse the place Trump confronted – and was finally discovered responsible – 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information.
Actor Robert De Niro factors to a supporter of former President Trump following a information convention exterior Manhattan Felony Courtroom in New York, on Could 28, 2024. ( Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
“Donald Trump needs to destroy not solely the town, however the nation. And ultimately he might destroy the world,” De Niro mentioned on the press convention. Biden and Harris have been current through the marketing campaign occasion.
Following his remarks, De Niro was shouted down by supporters as a “washed-up actor” and “trash,” and was accused of being a “paid actor for the DNC.”
“You’re a f—ing fool,” De Niro shouted at one of many pro-Trump protesters.
The occasion was subsequently slammed on social media by critics as a “horrible search for Democrats,” and in comparison with the satirical political comedy present “Veep.”
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Celebs bathe Biden with marketing campaign money, however might undercut ‘Scranton Joe’ picture
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