‘The Super Bowl of Fundraisers’: Biden Thrashes Trump With $25M Haul
Trump will have to sell a lot of bibles to catch up
That’s a lot of bibles.
Donald Trump would have to sell more than 400,000 of those “God Bless The USA” bibles to match the historic haul President Biden brought in Thursday night.
Or, put another way, Trump will have to unload 62,657 of those high-priced, gaudy sneakers he’s been hawking, if he wants to make the same $25 million the Biden campaign collected Thursday night, in what’s being called the most successful political fundraiser in American history.
That’s according to senior CNN data reporter Harry Enten.
Biden appeared Thursday evening alongside his Democratic predecessors, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, at a blockbuster campaign fundraiser in New York City.
The president’s reelection campaign reeled in the $25 million — given in donations of $250 to $5,000 — at their event at Radio City Music Hall, which featured a talk among the Democratic presidents moderated by late-night TV comedian Stephen Colbert, as well as entertainment by Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and Lea Michele.
“First of all, it‘s like the Super Bowl of fundraisers, I mean, to have $25 million raised. And don‘t forget, President Obama during his midterm, he was battling in the polls, he was weak, he was wobbling, and then Bill Clinton came out at our convention and gave an incredible speech and helped to turn the tide for Obama. So there is this tradition of the last Democratic president taking the stage, helping the existing Democratic president do well,” said political commentator and former Obama White House official, Van Jones. “And so now you‘ve got two, you‘ve got — you‘ve got Bill Clinton, who is a rock star for a certain part of the party, Bill Clinton’s a rock star, Obama‘s a rock star, getting behind Biden.
“And it‘s not just about the money, it‘s about re-energizing this party, bringing people together. It‘s a big deal tonight,” Jones added, Thursday.
It also highlights the woes faced by Trump, Biden’s likely opponent in November.
That's financial, as much of what Trump is raising gets siphoned off to pay his many legal bills.
But also it reminds voters that while Biden has Democratic luminaries behind him like Clinton and Obama, the only living Republican from a presidential ticket backing Trump is one-time vice presidential hopeful, Sarah Palin.
Republican commentator and one-time Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin called Biden’s star power a “show of force.”
“Whereas right now, no living candidate who‘s been on a GOP ticket, other than Sarah Palin, is backing Donald Trump. And I think that that‘s something that the Biden campaign is going to want to draw out, to say he‘s actually just not somebody that even previous candidates approve of,” she said.
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